Rome, 20 Mar. (LaPresse) – ‘Each country is responsible for its own defence and there is no possibility, as of today, either concrete or legal, of an automatic mechanism of mutual aid, intra-EU, in the event of aggression by a nation, or an entity, from outside’, unlike Article 5 of NATO, which ‘requires all allies to intervene in defence of any member that is attacked’. This is why ‘European defence, rebus sic stantibus, cannot replace NATO or offer the same level of protection’. This was written by Defence Minister Guido Crosetto in a letter to Corriere della Sera, explaining that he wanted to share a reflection based on ‘information on the EU founding treaties and the Italian legal system, from the Constitution to the laws, in order to avoid distorted interpretations and sterile polemics on issues of absolute importance that are today shaking up governments and public opinion alike’. Therefore, ‘in such a, but precise, context, the only concrete and practicable defence model, here and now, is that of NATO’.
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