⚡️BREAKING: European Parliament recommends giving Ukraine EU candidate status

[pbmus]

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[WA-03 Democrat]

1. Lots of room under the umbrella!

Do it and do it now! Stand up and be counted.

[PortTack]

2. Unite now! One more nail in pooties coffin

[Cha]

3. Rt TY & EU!!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

4. K & R!

[onecaliberal]

5. Woot! woot!

[iemanja]

6. That would mean military intervention

under article 5.

I wonder what the US will say.

[drray23]

7. no. the EU is not NATO.

Article 5 is in the NATO charter . The EU is an economic alliance.

[iemanja]

9. Oh, right

It's late.

[Starfury]

14. EU also has a Mutual Defence Clause (Article 42.7)

I have no idea how this will play out. AFAIK, it's never really been exercised, so who knows? It's uncharted territory.

MUTUAL DEFENCE CLAUSE

The Treaty of Lisbon strengthens the solidarity between EU countries in dealing with external threats by introducing a mutual defence clause (Article 42(7) of the Treaty on European Union). This clause provides that if an EU country is the victim of armed aggression on its territory, the other EU countries have an obligation to aid and assist it by all the means in their power, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Charter.

This obligation of mutual defence is binding on all EU countries. However, it does not affect the neutrality of certain EU countries and is consistent with the commitments of EU countries which are NATO members.

This provision is supplemented by the solidarity clause (Article 222 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU) which provides that EU countries are obliged to act jointly where an EU country is the victim of a terrorist attack or a natural or man-made disaster.

EU Glossary
42.7 Explainer

(I'm getting shades of WWI here... )

[Doodley]

8. They should let Russia into the EU, subject to meeting the criteria, including

removing Putin and bringing in election reform.

[LiberalLovinLug]

10. Sounds like something the UK should get in on

.....oh wait

[SunSeeker]

12. Brexit, which was promoted by Putin's trolls, was a disaster for the UK.

Why the fuck doesn't the UK fix its blunder?

[AllaN01Bear]

11. fasttrack their membership.

[SunSeeker]

13. Good. Get it done!