The EU is taking risks with the missile-defense shield

Laurent Zecchini is surprised with how easily Europeans accepted the American missile-defence shield on their soil, even with the risk of agitating Moscow. "It is curious that they didn't first consider their continental interests ... Are they preoccupied with the perspective of entrusting a growing part of their collective security to the United States, after having devoted so many years to financial efforts to bolster European defence? Have they understood that the reason for the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic is above all the security of American interests? [The project would install 10 missile interceptors in Poland and a radar station in the Czech Republic.] I don't think so. The risk of sacrificing the Euro-Russian relationship on the alter of Atlanticism at all costs seems dangerous."

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