{"id":11756,"date":"2025-12-18T19:30:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T20:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/?p=11756"},"modified":"2025-12-22T19:45:28","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T19:45:28","slug":"eu-lawmakers-approve-borderless-military-schengen-travel-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.globaltalenthq.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/18\/eu-lawmakers-approve-borderless-military-schengen-travel-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers approve borderless \u2018military Schengen\u2019 travel zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

MEPs have moved to streamline the movement of troops and armaments across the bloc<\/strong><\/p>\n

EU lawmakers have backed a bill for a “military Schengen area”<\/em> that would eliminate the bloc’s internal borders for the purposes of rapid troop and materiel movements in the event of a conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

Top EU officials have already used claims of an alleged threat from Russia to justify huge military spending packages, like its massive €800 billion ($938 billion) ReArm Europe plan. Moscow has labeled claims that it poses a threat to EU or NATO countries as nonsense.<\/p>\n

The proposal was originally presented by the European Commission last month and envisioned establishing an EU-wide “military mobility”<\/em> zone by 2027, aiming to cut through the bloc’s bureaucracy and reduce the time different militaries would need to cross borders.<\/p>\n

With the non-binding resolution passed, lawmakers on the bloc’s Transport and Defense Committees are now set to work on the bill, the European Parliament said in a press release.<\/p>\n

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French would \u2018lose children\u2019 in potential war with Russia \u2013 army chief<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

MEPs also passed a proposal to allocate €17 billion from 2028-2034 to “military mobility”<\/em> and dealing with long-term logistics and infrastructure issues like bridges and tunnels unsuited for use by heavy vehicles like tanks. Upgrading such “hotspots”<\/em> would cost at least an additional €100 billion, according to the press release.<\/p>\n

EU nations have accelerated their militarization in recent months, freeing up €335 billion in pandemic relief funds and mobilizing €150 billion in loans and grants for the bloc’s military industrial complex. Some of these funds have been made available to Kiev.<\/p>\n

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Russia outlines response to NATO\u2019s war preparations<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The militarization push has been accompanied by increasingly aggressive statements from officials, with France’s top general, Fabien Mandon, warning French citizens last month to be ready to “lose children”<\/em> in a potential conflict with Russia.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned that Europeans are “indoctrinated with fears of an inevitable confrontation with Russia”<\/em> by being fed “a lie and an irrational narrative about an imaginary Russian threat.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has stressed that Moscow harbors “no aggressive plans against either NATO or EU members,”<\/em> and is prepared to give legal guarantees to the effect “in writing, on a collective, mutual basis.”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MEPs have moved to streamline the movement of troops and armaments across the bloc EU lawmakers have backed a bill for a “military Schengen area” that would eliminate the bloc’s internal borders for the purposes of rapid troop and materiel movements in the event of a conflict with Russia. Top…<\/p>\n

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