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BRUSSELS \u2014 European Union\u00a0member states need to greatly expand cooperation\u00a0Gen.\u00a0Pierre de Villiers, the French chief of \u00a0the Defense Staff, said\u00a0“further and deeper” cooperation at EU member state level is vital <\/span>to meet “unprecedented” defense and security threats to Europe, said Gen.\u00a0Pierre de Villiers, the French<\/span>\u00a0France’s\u00a0chief of the Defense Staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Future cooperation, he argued, might include sharing the costs of “employment and support,”\u00a0together with design, development and industrialization costs. Pooling or sharing in the field of operations, as well individual or collective training, are additional\u00a0examples, of increased collaboration, <\/span>he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I am also thinking of cooperation on projects linked to in-flight refueling,” said Gen. <\/span>de Villiers said<\/span>, who has been in his post since February of<\/span> 2014. HeDe Villiers<\/span> made his comments to the\u00a0EDA’s in-house journal,<\/span> European Defence Matters, the in-house journal of the EU’s\u00a0European Defence Agency (EDA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His remarks\u00a0come in the wake of<\/span>\u00a0followed a damning new European Defence Agency (<\/span>EDA)<\/span> report published in March about\u00a0a “worrying”<\/span>\u00a0the decline in defense expenditure by EU member states.\u00a0The Brussels-based EDA says defense spending has been “declining steadily,” and that, from 2006 to 2013, it fell<\/span>\u00a0falling by more than \u20ac32 billion (US $35.7 billion), or about 15 percent, from 2006 to 2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The EDA, an EU agency,<\/span> said\u00a0that between 2012 and 2013, collaborative equipment procurement expenditure <\/span>decreased\u00a0by 20.7 percent to \u20ac4.75 billion, its\u00a0lowest level since 2006.\u20ac4.75bn<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seizing on current defense <\/span>spending trends, Gen. <\/span>de Villiers said: “Budgetary difficulties make it necessary to find new solutions in order to fill the gaps in budgetary programming.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

France has been engaged in has been able to put its military resources to good use through actions in <\/span>Afghanistan, Libya, Mali and against the Islamic State militant group, and\u00a0in<\/span> recently times<\/span>\u00a0has become a key European partner for the US military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

French armed <\/span>forces have a reported strength of 215,019 regular personnel, but Gen. <\/span>de Villiers, a former head of the French<\/span> prime minister’s military staff, said\u00a0“increasing levels of threats very close to Europe’s borders challenge\u00a0our common capacity to cope with them.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This “serious and quite unprecedented” challenge requires , he supports <\/span>increased cooperation among EU member states, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Villiers, France’s top military officer, said,\u00a0<\/span>“We have to find pragmatic solutions which enable us to meet operational requirements at the lowest possible cost,”\u00a0De Villiers, France’s top military officer, said. “The starting point of efficient cooperation is sharing a common vision, but I can see advantages in conducting programs in cooperation with partners.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One example of existing cooperation, he said, is the European Satellite Communication Procurement Cell, also known as the EU SATCOM Market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Closer cooperation, he said, is possible in almost every domain “except some ‘niche capabilities’ linked to the heart of our operational or technological sovereignty.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cooperation has to be seriously considered and must be systematically sought for all capabilities which are essential but which cannot be obtained at national level,” he told the EDA’s in-house journal, <\/span>European Defence Matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the past decade, France initially sought defense partners inside the EUuropean Union<\/span> but found itself<\/span> became frustrated with Germany’s more cautious view of military power. However,\u00a0Paris has though <\/span>been forging closer military and industrial ties with London since the two sides signed a defense cooperation treaty in 2010.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That cooperation has included Britain providing airlift and battlefield surveillance capabilities for French troops fighting in Mali, while France has sent maritime patrol aircraft to Scotland to hunt suspected Russian submarines close to a UK nuclear missile submarine base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

De Villiers accepts that as defence is one of the “fundamental prerogatives of the state” cooperation requires a “strong will to get closer to others.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The defense chief’s <\/span>De Villier’s call is echoed by the EU\u00a0high representative of the Union<\/span> for foreign affairs and security policy\u00a0EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security<\/span>, Federica Mogherini, who said a more “cooperative approach” is needed to reverse a trend that has seen spending in defense research and technology fall by almost 30 percent in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Cooperation needs to be incentivized,” she said. “We must make the best use of all EU instruments and policies at our disposal in support of an integrated and sustainable industrial base which will help increase Europe’s autonomy and ability to act with partners.” she said.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voicing the European industry standpoint, Jan Pie, secretary-general of the AeroSpace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD), said, “ASD shares the concern about the lack of cooperation and fully supports every effort to foster and enhance European defense cooperation.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, with <\/span>defense is still a closely\u00a0guarded competence of EU member states and\u00a0any moves toward\u00a0closer cooperation at the EU\u00a0level will is sure to <\/span>spark resistance a furious response <\/span>in some quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mike Hooken, a member of the European Parliament and defense spokesman for the UK Independence Party, said:\u00a0<\/span>“When the EU says ‘deeper cooperation,’ what they actually mean is a wholesale takeover of yet another aspect of our sovereignty,” said\u00a0Mike Hooken, a member of the European Parliament and defense spokesman for the UK Independence Party. “The first duty of government in the UK is the defense of the realm. To hand any of our military capability to an unelected, dictatorial body like the EU is little short of treason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Having seen what a total mess the EU has\u00a0made of both the euro and the immigration policies, I have very grave concerns about their ability to mount any form of military operation, never mind manage an army and defend the UK against a growing range of threats.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Andrew Chuter contributed to this report from London.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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