{"id":15867,"date":"2025-01-07T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/france-may-become-eus-military-backbone-if-us-leaves-nato\/"},"modified":"2025-01-07T12:00:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T08:30:45","slug":"france-may-become-eus-military-backbone-if-us-leaves-nato","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/france-may-become-eus-military-backbone-if-us-leaves-nato\/","title":{"rendered":"France may become EU\u2019s military backbone if US leaves NATO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5321742.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>The EU may turn to the Lisb. ty if US President-elect Donald Trump withdraws America from NATO, Professor Stavros Kalenteridis of the Aegean College in Athens told Sputnik.<br \/> Such a scenario could take place if Trump makes good on his previous threats against the alliance, according to Kalenteridis.<\/p>\n<p>The professor recalled that Trump had warned earlier that the US would not protect those NATO members who fail to be in line with a minimum defense spending requirement related to the alliance\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This could weaken NATO and prompt the EU to turn to Article 42.7 of the Lisbon Treaty, which contains a clause pertaining to the EU\u2019s mutual assistance,&#8221; Kalenteridis added.<\/p>\n<p>The scenario could pave the ground for France\u2019s leadership in the EU, given that the country &#8220;has historically sought an independent military course and sometimes deviated from NATO&#8217;s route,&#8221; the pundit pointed out.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t rule out that &#8220;the future French president could sever Paris\u2019 ties with NATO,&#8221; which the professor argued &#8220;in the long term would benefit Russia,&#8221; which has repeatedly cautioned the alliance against its eastward expansion.<\/p>\n<p>MNA\/<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/226591\/France-may-become-EU-s-military-backbone-if-US-leaves-NATO\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EU may turn to the Lisb. ty if US President-elect Donald Trump withdraws America from NATO, Professor Stavros Kalenteridis of the Aegean College in Athens told Sputnik. Such a scenario could take place if Trump makes good on his previous threats against the alliance, according to Kalenteridis. The professor recalled that Trump had warned &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}