Renzi, Hollande and Merkel discuss security and the migrant crisis

 

 

ROME: --  The leaders of Italy, France and Germany have been meeting on board the Italian aircraft carrier ‘Garibaldi.’

 

The trio planned to discuss several topics such as the migrant crisis as well as securing Europe’s internal and external borders following a string of Islamist militant attacks.

 

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi addressed reporters at a news conference.

 

“Many thought that after Brexit Europe was over. Not so. We respect the choice of the British people, but we want to write a page for the future. And that’s why internal security, external security, the fight for a common Defense, cooperation between intelligence services, better integration of national Defense industries, the project for an European Community for security are our top priorities,” said Renzy.

 

Earlier the three leaders laid a wreath on the tomb of the Italian intellectual Altiero Spinelli, who is seen as one of the fathers of European unity.

 

French President Francois Hollande called for strengthening community education programmes such as Erasmus, which marks its thirtieth anniversary next year.

 

He said such student schemes for Europeans help young people learn to discover.

 

 

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The three of them need to go, they could not secure a wet dream.

Indeed, the only one with a pair of stones (the one in the middle) is an out of touch basket case. It makes me cringe when they muse over defence and security when the big guns are about to leave the building. It is also very early days to say Europe has not failed; Britain hasn't left yet. It'll come.

Common defence, common intelligence sharing, better integration of national Defense industries... What a pile of manure. For Christ's sake, you haven't even been able to intimidate Thailand into cooperating with you!

As for the migrant crisis and terrorism, is there anybody out there who doesn't think it will just be a case of more of the same pretending nothing is amiss, followed by the usual 'shocked' and 'nobody could have forseen' as the body count continues to rise and you continue to cut welfare provisions for your elderly and vulnerable?

How appropriate that the 3 Amigos are discussing security aboard what will be a heavily defended aircraft carrier. Whilst warnings are being issued in Germany to stockpile emergency provisions.

 

Irony at its finest.

6 hours ago, baboon said:

Common defence, common intelligence sharing, better integration of national Defense industries... What a pile of manure. For Christ's sake, you haven't even been able to intimidate Thailand into cooperating with you!

As for the migrant crisis and terrorism, is there anybody out there who doesn't think it will just be a case of more of the same pretending nothing is amiss, followed by the usual 'shocked' and 'nobody could have forseen' as the body count continues to rise and you continue to cut welfare provisions for your elderly and vulnerable?

 

First the 6 Founding Members met to discuss the EU's future. Now it's down to 3. Italy must be reveling in anyone actually thinking they're important. France still deludes itself it's equal to Germany. The Germans, the federalists, are just please the only block to their running the show, the UK is seemingly out the way.

 

Presumably they aren't bothered what the other 24 EU member states might think, say, want, or wish. Not important. 

 

The EU will, under these clowns, march on towards ever increasing union, centralization, bureaucratic control and less real democracy. All under German management, naturally. At some point people in other countries will get tired of being micro-managed by Germans with French nodding dog acquiescence and Italians there to make the numbers up. Then it will really implode and probably not in a nice way. I've worked and lived in Germany, and they have many many strengths and good points. Managing non-Germans, cultural sensitivity, and big picture thinking aren't included. Watch them quickly try to put a EU Army, EU Police and EU Judicial System in place now UK not really there to act as a counter balance.

 

The other members will simply be told that's how it is and why many federalists want to impose real sanctions on the UK as a warning to others. 

 

Remember the French Foreign Minister suggested after Brexit result that now the EU should revisit it's mission and vision and choices should be put to the whole EU population to vote on to check if the majority actually wanted closer union and more federalization. His idea was very democratic, but of course strangled at birth by those federalist left wing liberal politicians who believe they know what's best and the electorate's opinion doesn't count. As the German Finance Minister put it " election can't be allowed to change things!"