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Seven in ten Europeans want their own army, poll shows
A survey across 14 countries finds strong backing for EU military independence, even as faith in the US erodes and Germany stands apart on Ukraine.
In brief
A survey across 14 countries finds strong backing for EU military independence, even as faith in the US erodes and Germany stands apart on Ukraine. Seventy-one percent of Europeans support creating an EU army, with highest backing in Romania, Lithuania and France, amid doubts about US security commitment. Originally…
Seventy-one percent back EU army
A GLOBSEC survey of fourteen countries finds strong support for the European Union to have its own military, with backing highest in Romania at eighty-two percent.
“Some 71% of Europeans want the EU to have its own army”
Support spans across Europe
Lithuania backs the idea at seventy-eight percent, France at seventy-five percent. Even Poland and Bulgaria, traditionally wary of European defense integration, show seventy percent support.
Americans seen as security threat
More than one-third of European respondents now consider the United States a security threat.In Germany, France and Britain, around half hold that view.
Germany divided on Ukraine war
Forty percent of German respondents agree Ukraine's treatment of Russian speakers justified the invasion. Thirty-nine percent believe the West provoked the war. Just over half consider Ukraine's fight important to German security.
Here's the gist
Seventy-one percent of Europeans support creating an EU army, with highest backing in Romania, Lithuania and France, amid doubts about US security commitment.
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