EU REFERENDUM – INDEPENDENT FACTS
Security
First Published 15th June 2016
EU Fact – Security
[4. Non-hazardous physical environment, 7. Significant primary relationships with others, 8. Physical security]
Border Control
The ‘intermediate needs’ of a UK resident are not materially affected by leaving the EU, except that physical security could be improved by the improvement in border control. We would also have more security if we left, because EU rules of right to remain in an EU country of residence, prevent the expulsion of EU criminals.
The Home Affairs Committee found that 13,000 unwanted EU criminals were still in the UK, because the Home Office was unable to send them home.
External Security
The EU referendum debate is concentrated on the external security arrangements agreed with the EU and the government claim that the EU promotes peace and security.
This is another distortion of the facts, which are listed below in brief.
- The EU exists because peace in Europe was established after two world wars.
- Peace has nothing to do with the EU. Peace has been maintained in Europe by NATO, which is mainly the USA and includes 22 of the 28 EU states with the UK as one of the core contributors.
EU attempts at enforcing peace have been a feeble mixture of incoherence and appeasement.
- Bosnia – 1995 UN failed to protect people in their safe area, because EU governments would not risk their troops, so they allowed Bosnian Serbs to massacre 7,000 to 8,000 Bosniak men and boys, this was followed by an attack on a Sarajevo marketplace.
- NATO warplanes responded with air attacks to support a large-scale Bosniak-Croat land offensive that ended the conflict.
- [http://www.brookings.edu/research/articles/1998/12/balkans-daalder] – Link Removed
Russian Expansionism
Russian expansionism under Putin for which he EU has no effective deterrent. – Russo-Georgian War of 2008, sponsorship of terrorism and separatism / conflicts in Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
[https://www.neweasterneurope.eu/interviews/1292-expansionism-the-core-of-russia-s-foreign-policy] also:p.43/44 [http://www.clingendael.nl/sites/default/files/New%20Threats_New%20EU_Nato%20Responses_Clingendael_July2015.pdf] – Both Links Removed
Syrian Conflict
Since 2011 the EU has condemned human rights violations in Syria in the strongest terms and is leading humanitarian aid. Direct action to resolve the conflict has been left to NATO and Russia
[BBC /news/world-europe ]
EU Army
The EU Commissioners have also been quietly building an EU army and the UK Government has failed to inform the voters that the Lisbon Treaty obliges the UK to join the EU military. This will require the UK military to fall under the command of the European Commission (EC), who have delegated control to Germany
The fear is that it could undermine NATO. This is a real and present danger to the freedom and security of the UK. Some commentators would have us believe that the EU Military is just an aspiration, but it is a reality and it is based in the Justus Lipsius Building, located opposite the Berlaymont and Charlemagne Buildings at the Schuman traffic circle, Brussels.
[https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol49no4/Intelligence%20Capability_6.htm] – Link Removed
EU Army’s Consolidation
- Last month the Dutch 43rd Mechanised Brigade was subsumed into the German 1st Armoured Division, following the takeover
- of the Dutch 11th Airmobile Brigade by German command last year.
- Germany is also already sharing the Netherland’s largest war ship, the Karel Doorman, and aim to merge the two naval powers into one unified navy within the next two years.
- The Czech Republic has now entered talks to bring its army under German control, with the Poles also mooted to be part of the plan.
German and Dutch military forces merge
Currently the EU army is very dependent on US enablers, such as intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR)
Other EU Risks to UK Security
Other aspects of the EU that impact on UK security include the following.
- Abolition of inter-state border controls has jeopardised our security and has come at an enormous cost and is exploited by people smugglers, drug traffickers and a variety of terrorist organisations.
- The UK is not part of the EU’s border-free-zone, so we control our own borders, but we are forced to allow entry to people carrying EU passports or identity cards, making it easier for smugglers, drug traffickers and terrorist.
- EU membership allows access to member states intelligence and fingerprint and DNA information and the European arrest warrant.
- The EU is not a natural contributor to national security of each of the entity states and in fact in some ways gets in the way of the state’s providing security for its own citizens. However, these will be subjects in the two-year negotiations on exit. The UK has a strong negotiating position, because of our expertise and the intelligence obtained by GCHQ.
[uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-security ]