{"id":9965,"date":"2026-04-05T02:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9965\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:43:33","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:43:33","slug":"eus-foreign-policy-chief-says-a-europe-wide-army-could-be-extremely-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/9965\/","title":{"rendered":"EU’s foreign policy chief says a Europe-wide army could be ‘extremely dangerous’"},"content":{"rendered":"

BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday rejected calls for a Europe-wide army, warning that it could be \u201cextremely dangerous\u201d as the bloc considers ways to provide its own security after the United States warned that its priorities lie elsewhere<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Talk of a European army has resurfaced amid tensions within NATO over President Donald Trump\u2019s threats<\/a> to annex Greenland, the semiautonomous territory of NATO-ally Denmark.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose who say that we need a European army, maybe those people haven\u2019t really thought this through practically,\u201d Kallas said. \u201cIf you are already part of NATO then you can\u2019t create a separate army.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kallas told a security conference in Norway that the most important military asset during a crisis \u201cis the chain of command \u2014 who gives orders to whom.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cAnd if you have, like the European army and then you have the NATO (one), then, you know, the ball just falls between the chairs. And this is extremely, extremely dangerous.\u201d<\/p>\n

NATO\u2019s military operations are overseen by a Supreme Allied Commander, who is always a top U.S. officer. The role is currently held by Airforce Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich. <\/p>\n

Norway\u2019s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re said: \u201cNATO is there with the decision-making process among allies, which is in itself complex, but it is trained to work.\u201d He rejected calls for a European army, saying that \u201cit is not a road we should travel.\u201d Norway is not a member of the EU.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said last week that Europe is incapable of defending itself<\/a> without U.S. military support and would have to more than double current military spending targets<\/a> to be able to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf anyone thinks here \u2026 that the European Union or Europe as a whole can defend itself without the U.S., keep on dreaming. You can\u2019t,\u201d Rutte told EU lawmakers in Brussels. <\/p>\n

Europe and the United States \u201cneed each other,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (AP) \u2014 European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas on Monday rejected calls for a Europe-wide army,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[140],"tags":[8918,947,12,8917,307,939,1665,7167,4130,8916,442,389,396,3446,51,8224,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-9965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kaja-kallas","8":"tag-alexus-grynkewich","9":"tag-diplomacy","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-eurocopa-2024","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european-union","14":"tag-general-news","15":"tag-government-policy","16":"tag-international-agreements","17":"tag-jonas-gahr-stre","18":"tag-kaja-kallas","19":"tag-mark-rutte","20":"tag-nato","21":"tag-north-atlantic-treaty-organization","22":"tag-politics","23":"tag-send-to-apple-news","24":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/116349803099074276","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}