UN EU planning a 10,000-strong armed force to protect border - Experts claim "a bit too late for that now"

The European Union will deploy 10,000 armed border guards to tackle unlawful migration by 2020, the European Commission President Claude Juncker is expected to announce in a speech on Wednesday.

The force will have the power to use armed force on the E.U.’s external borders, according to a draft of the document seen by the Financial Times.

Migration has been a particularly divisive issue within the E.U. since a major influx of refugees in 2015. Voters’ fears and concerns over migration have, in part, led to right wing parties surging in popularity and being elected to government in a number of member states including Italy and Austria.

The border force proposal marks a significant E.U.-level policy move in a debate that has long been defined by disagreements between individual member states. Most recently, in July, the new anti-immigrant Italian government refused to allow boats carrying hundreds of migrants to dock in its ports, leading to a political deadlock that only defused when Spain agreed to take the migrants in.

The proposal for a heavily beefed-up E.U. border force is also likely to be highly controversial—with rights groups who decry the construction of a “Fortress Europe,” and with political parties who resent centralized European institutions accruing more power.

http://time.com/5392444/eu-border-force-migration/

Good.

 

[Derp Potato]

Why hasn't he EU just absorbed the joke of the UN as their makeshift army? It'll be just as shitty, but already standing.

 

[Slap47]

Why hasn't he EU just absorbed the joke of the UN as their makeshift army? It'll be just as shitty, but already standing.

Because Bangladesh and India supply most of the troops and the US provides most of the money.

 

[Douglas Reynholm]

https://www.euractiv.com/section/uk-europe/news/juncker-rages-against-the-uk-and-hungary/

So after all the strong-arming states over taking in more migrants and not specifically refugees, to the point that it fuelled calls for referendums over membership he turns foot. Managing to kickstart the rise of a shit load of rightwing immigration-centric parties and then proving them right shows how clueless he is. Nigel Farage must be creaming his pants.

 

[jebsurge]

10,000 troops is less than a single division of the United States Army.

 

[RodgerDodger]

Well this should be easy. I mean they just imported a few million military age single men looking for jobs?

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

I wonder how long it will take for the standing army to be deployed against subversives and other "problematic" citizens.

 

[RomanesEuntDomus]

I honestly think it is time America rethinks our bases in Europe

I think you're underestimating the value to america why there's bases in the EU in the first place.
Protip: Without Ramstein, your entire drone warfare in the middle east would be impossible.

Bring in hoards of migrants to terrify right wingers, get a border patrol, make it so that the right is fighting for a border patrol, watch as right works with the left to create an EU army before your eyes.

Only one downside, it assumes that Merkel knows what she's doing.

 

[Jet Fuel Johnny]

This is going to end up with the US pulling border patrol, just like the good ol' days of doing it on the 1K Zone and the Germans pissing and moaning about it, just like the good ol' days.

The EU will promise, this time for realsies, to pay their share, then instead pay for a bunch of mudders with a 65 IQ to learn how to rape UK girls and turn them into kebabs.