Much like the minister for foreign affairs (see EUROPE B13796A4), Spain’s Secretary of State for the European Union Fernando Sampedro advocated [creating] a European army when he was in Cyprus on Tuesday, 3 February.
“It is time, in the current geopolitical context, [for] Europe [to] foster its sovereignty in the area of security and defence and advance the work on a possible common army”, he stressed upon his arrival at the informal ministerial meeting on competitiveness (see...