Argument paper on the Vatanen report and beyond, 16 of February 2009

1. The minority opinion to Vatanen's report demands a strict separation of NATO and the EU, why?

NATO is a military alliance and by definition its focus rests on how to use force in order to fight for the interests of its member states. Furthermore, military alliances like NATO are by their very nature exclusive organizations and therefore creating front lines between members and non-members. This is all the more true as NATO is ever more frequently using military force in so called "out-of-area" operations around the globe. Although conducted in the name of peace and security these aggressive interventions have a disastrous effect for the countries being attacked – take Afghanistan as the currently most obvious example.
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