Spain’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, spoke to the press in Brussels on Tuesday 27 January in favour of a “European army”, at a time when foreign powers are increasingly considering the threat of force as a form of foreign policy.
While the EU must not respond “aggressively”, nor deny its values based on respect for international rules, in particular the United Nations Charter, “it is clear that we are at a turning point in what is known as the predictable...