EU citizens should stockpile three days worth of essential goods

The European Commission has released its Preparedness Union Strategy, an 18-page document which Brussels says aims to help Europe anticipate, prevent, and respond to crisis.

However, it seems to be much more than that.

• EU warns citizens they need 3 days’ supplies amid war risks
  

  EU warns citizens they need 3 days’ supplies amid war risks

  EU warns its citizens they need a three-day crisis survival kit.

The document contains the recommendation that every European citizen should stockpile enough food to be self-sufficient for at least 72 hours in case of extreme disruptions, from war to cyber attacks and deadly disease to climate-driven floods.

For three years, in Ukraine, we have seen a battlefield of bombs and bullets, drones, fighter planes, trenches and submarines.

It is also threatened by other battlefields, the battlefields in our pockets, our phones, our computers, our power plants.

These are all battlefields, and they are being weaponized to threaten our European way of life and our democracies.

Hadja Lahbib, EU Crisis Management Commissioner

• EU to purchase weapons inside Europe, reduce reliance on US
  

  EU unveils plan to purchase weapons from inside Europe, reduce reliance on US

  The European Union has called on its members to reduce their security dependency on the United States, and instead purchase their military equipment from other EU members.

The European Commission recommends that EU citizens should stockpile three days' worth of a dozen products considered essential for survival, including a bottle of water, a flashlight, identity documents, vitamin bars, matches, and a shortwave radio.

The plan by the European Commission is to create tension and fear across Europe so that new measures restricting freedom can be progressively introduced.

Mind you, Brussels, thanks to the principle of subsidiarity, can replace the bloc’s governments in controlling their citizens.

Bruno Scapini, Former Italian Ambassador

• EU lawmakers criticize EU for prioritizing war over diplomacy
  

  EU lawmakers criticize EU for prioritizing war over diplomacy

  The European Commission president asserts that Russia

The European Union's war rhetoric has been on the increase over the past few weeks.

Earlier this month, the President of the Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced an 800 billion euro rearmament plan, 'ReArm Europe', which was subsequently rebranded 'Readiness 2030' after backlash from Italy and Spain that argued the name was excessively charged and risked alienating the citizens.

The bulk of the money for the Brussels rearmament plan will have to come directly from EU member states.

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  Can Europe decouple its economy and defense from US amid widening cracks

  For Donald Trump, the European Union is just another supranational entity – like the WTO and the WHO – that he believes keeps exploiting America.

Southern Europe's heavily indebted countries view the plan, promoted especially by Germany, with suspicion.

I think we should ask ourselves, how it is possible that European leaders, who have forever been loyal to the US, can stand up to Washington's foreign policy.

My guess is that some power circles in Europe are still connected to the US deep state that Trump is trying to dismantle.

Bruno Scapini, Former Italian Ambassador

Meanwhile, the so-called 31-country 'Coalition of the Willing' comprising largely European and Commonwealth nations, convened in Paris on Thursday for a meeting that could mark a pivotal moment in shaping Europe's response to the Ukraine- Russia war.

• EU lawmakers criticize EU for prioritizing war over diplomacy
  

  EU lawmakers criticize EU for prioritizing war over diplomacy

  The European Commission president asserts that Russia

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