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France's Mélenchon warns: "If I become president we leave NATO" (europa.today.it)

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[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He's not. Historically France has always been out of NATO's commandment, we rejoined fairly recently and given the situation with Trump, it's a sensible take. What we need though is a European equivalent, a unified defensive pact and a unified defensive army between all members.

[–] Attacker94@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a unified defensive pact

Wouldn't this be covered by article 42.7 of the EU charter?

[–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago

I believe it's more of an aid clause than a defensive one. Like all member states must provide aid and assistance, but not necessarily armed forces to fight and defend territorial sovereignty