The EU thrives on fear

Survival kits for Europe - fearmongering or necessary preparedness?

The far right accuses the European Commission of sowing fear, after its presentation of the resilience kit which aims to provide self-sufficiency in case of crisis.

The EU thrives on fear

Mild feelings of panic were induced across the European Union last week, as citizens were urged to prepare for impending disaster. Stock your cupboards! Draft emergency plans! No, it’s not the opening of a mediocre dystopian novel — it’s the EU’s newly minted “Preparedness Union Strategy”. This grand initiative is designed, allegedly, to protect Europeans from floods, fires, pandemics and, of course, a full-scale Russian invasion. The strategy dr

“In my resilience bag there is international humanitarian law, which every day is under attack and is torn apart not only Putin but also Netanyahu, there are very important international conversions, there is a Europe that works for disarmament and not for proliferation, and there is enormous taxation for the extra profits of the war industry,” so Cecilia Strada replies at the plenary session in Strasbourg to the survival kit presented in a vide…

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