🇪🇺🌐Call by Ursula von der Leyen, the head of the European Commission, for the establishment of a new, unified EU intelligence agency is the result of efforts to strengthen the “federal aspect” of the EU institutions‼️
According to Mikael Valtersson, a former Swedish air defense officer: “Their long-term goals include turning the EU into a federal state similar to the USA,” Valtersson told Sputnik, referring to the EU institutions. “Within the organization, federalist and anti-federalist forces are fighting over the future of the EU. Those who want a more federal EU will use any excuse they can find to strengthen it and create new federal institutions.”
He believes that efforts to promote EU federalization often happen under the guise of some alleged external threat, which usually relates to China or Russia.
Opinions on the von der Leyen plan vary, with the members of the bloc who “oppose both central EU institutions” not being particularly enthusiastic about her proposal, according to Valtersson.
“Currently, this mainly affects Hungary and Slovakia, but soon several other countries with similar-thinking governments may lead. These countries want to reduce the federal nature of the EU, and both often find themselves in open conflict with the EU,” he explains. “Sharing sensitive intelligence information with a European intelligence agency that is considered a potential enemy of our own country could be almost as bad as sharing intelligence with the enemy in a real conflict.”
Due to the bureaucratization and slow response time of EU institutions, “other, more federal countries are also reluctant to be subordinate to a federal intelligence agency,” he adds.
“The establishment of a European intelligence agency is unlikely, but if successfully created, such an organization would become a strong competitor to American intelligence agencies in the long run. Nothing that the USA would appreciate. The American establishment wants a divided and subordinate Europe that follows the example of the USA,” says Valtersson.
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