A European army, a common defence and already in this house people are saying: “Well the Americans won’t be here any more we will have to stand alone with our own military structure”. “Be positive”, Juncker said. “And we are getting smaller”, Juncker said, adding that only standing together, however hard that is, can fix the problem.
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“Much more solidarity is needed, but. that.must come from the heart”, Juncker said.
The EC wants to support this by ensuring all urban areas, major roads and railways have uninterrupted 5G coverage, with 5G being commercially available in at least one major city in each European Union country by 2020.
After all, it was the United Kingdom that instigated the creation of the single market.
He proposed a doubling of the European Union investment fund to spur economic growth, fresh measures to tackle youth unemployment and cited an European Union initiative to eliminate roaming charges on cell phones that he said will be proposed next week.
Juncker said on Thursday the June 23 vote to leave the EU showed “something was wrong in Britain”, as well as something wrong with the European project. The new European Union proposal recognises the role and obligations of online services in the digital market and calls on them to take appropriate measures to ensure the protection of creative works.
“We want to have very good, very close relation with the UK”.
The programme is likely run from 2018-2019 and start with small with a budget of around €25 million, an European Union official said.
Analysts believe Brexit could reduce the EU’s military capacity by a quarter as Europe’s biggest spending power departs the bloc, unless action is taken to change current defence arrangements. It will be up to national governments to ensure people with low incomes or special needs can access such services, perhaps by offering vouchers to cover the cost or by requiring carriers to provide special tariff options.
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The deployment of an additional 200 extra border guards and 50 extra vehicles to the Bulgarian border were among the proposals announced by Mr Juncker, as well as moves to strengthen Europol, the EU-wide intelligence agency.
