The request of the European Parliament official to extend the nuclear shield of France to the whole of Europe

According to the report of the international group Tasnim news agency, after The recent anti-NATO statements of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the US presidential election, have raised the debate about the need to establish an independent European nuclear deterrent in this union.

In this regard, Manfred Weber , the leader of the European People’s Party (EPP) parliamentary faction, has long called for a European nuclear deterrent. He is of the opinion that the red button should remain in France.

The head of the EPP group in the European Parliament, and one of the politicians of the Christian Social Party in this regard from the expansion of the umbrella France’s nuclear watchdog supported Europe’s nuclear weapons debate. Weber said: “It’s not a question of Europeanizing the red button – it stays in Paris.” , due to the re-candidacy of Donald Trump for the presidency in the United States, he expressed doubts about the reliability of the American nuclear weapons shield for Europe. It had become the nuclear deterrent of Europe and offered to negotiate with France and Britain. However, the debate gained momentum after Trump threatened not to protect NATO partners who did not invest enough in self-defense in an emergency.

What is problematic here is that no There is no structure in the European Union to order the use of nuclear weapons in case of defense. Germany’s top politicians, including chancellor Olaf Schultz, reject any discussion of Europe’s nuclear arsenal at this point in time. On the other hand, as Weber suggests, implementing a “red button” in Paris is likely to be difficult due to the power dynamics between Germany and France in the EU. The possible arming of Germany with nuclear weapons is considered unrealistic. It can be done and the debates about the need for nuclear independence of Europe have heated up, and this union has a very difficult path ahead of it to achieve this goal. Europe, by emphasizing the need for a significant increase in the defense costs of EU member states, also discussed the necessity of Europe’s nuclear deterrence in the current situation.

German Federal Defense Minister Boris Pistorius and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg warned against discussing Europe’s nuclear shield without the United States at a meeting of the Western alliance. France is the only two European countries of NATO that have such weapons systems. Recently, he warned that Moscow can “do whatever it wants” with those NATO members who do not contribute enough to pay their share of the costs of the alliance.