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“Nenhum país conseguirá se defender se estiver na bancarrota”… O problema é que quando vem a crise financeira, um dos primeiros cortes orçamentários é na área de Defesa…

Euro crisis main security threat: military chief

LONDON — The ongoing eurozone crisis is the single greatest threat to Britain’s national security, the head of its armed forces warned Wednesday.

Chief of the defence staff General Sir David Richards also told the Royal United Services Institute, a defense think tank, that the Arab Spring uprisings could trigger Islamist unrest in Britain. Continuar lendo →

“O homem que disse não à Europa” – esse título ilustra bem as severas críticas da Der Spiegel à decisão de David Cameron de vetar as reformas econômicas propostas pelo eixo Paris-Berlim para salvar a zona do Euro. Como sempre, parece que ilha deseja manter-se isolada (ou seria o continente que estaria isolado, conforme o Times no século XIX?)…

De toda maneira, os britânicos deixaram claro que não querem se envolver em uma crise que pensam não ser deles… e o processo de integração é que acaba prejudicado. Será que Londres esqueceu que pertence a um bloco? Enfim, o problema permanece e há muito que as relações européias não se mostravam tão abaladas…

SPIEGEL ONLINE – 12/09/2011 06:44 PM

Britain vs. the EU 26: The Man Who Said No to Europe

By Carsten Volkery in Brussels

British Prime Minister David Cameron has completely isolated his country on the European stage — and many in his country applaud him for it. But he will soon have to prove that London still has clout in the EU, and that his no to fiscal union wasn’t just a bone thrown to euroskeptic conservatives.

The decision by British Prime Minster David Cameron to block a European Union treaty change by using his country’s veto power has sparked a festive atmosphere among euroskeptics in the United Kingdom. “At last,” Lord Norman Tebbitt, once one of Margaret Thatcher’s closest confidants, blogged on the Daily Telegraph’s website. Cameron, he wrote, has applied the very veto that former Prime Minister John Major should have used against the Maastricht Treaty, which created the euro. “We should just be grateful,” he added. Continuar lendo →