----- Original Message ----- From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 06, 2000 5:27 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] France angry at Solana's NATO plot STOP NATO: NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.HOME-PAGE.ORG The Telegraph (UK) ISSUE 1746Monday 6 March 2000 Paris fury as Solana boosts Nato role By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels JAVIER SOLANA, the European Union's security supremo, has angered France by trying to end its hopes for a European army and orchestrating a takeover by Nato. With the inauguration of the new European "defence identity", EU officials have been working behind the scenes to determine whether it will lead to a European army or an enhanced European wing of Nato. Following semi-clandestine talks between EU officials and Nato staff in Brussels, it has been proposed that an American officer from Shape, Nato's operations centre, should take a permanent room in an EU building. The idea was floated by the Portuguese EU presidency, allegedly after prompting by Mr Solana. The Portuguese paper also proposed allowing Nato officials to attend meetings of the EU's new military committees, causing consternation in Paris, where the move is seen as tantamount to handing the new bodies to Washington on a plate. Paris wants to keep the Americans locked out until the new institutions have grown to maturity and established the final blueprint for EU defence integration. ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Advertisement: redtag.com offers UNBELIEVABLE prices on a wide variety of brand names. Get a boys or girls MURRAY 20" bike for only $29.99! Compare as high as $99. To receive 10% off any purchase TODAY go to http://www.lisbot.com/links/redtag2
