Federico Bordonaro

Analisi scritta per il P.I.N.R. sul problema della difesa anti-missile

Washington is finally reaching its long term goal of setting up a B.M.D. system in Europe, largely as a result of the pro-U.S. governments in Poland and the Czech Republic. The Pentagon can be expected to push for achieving the final agreements, even though Germany and the Western European powers will try to mediate between Moscow and Washington.

The European Union, therefore, will be forced to make its choice: either it can propose to the United States the joint development of a common B.M.D. system — possibly in cooperation with Moscow — or it must accept the occurrence of a severe fracture between the Atlanticist and the Continentalist states within the Union itself. In the latter case, bilateral strategic ties between the Atlanticist countries and the United States will make the B.M.D. issue in Europe a reality, but one that Brussels will not control, kissing goodbye the chances to forge an effective European security and defense policy.