NATO should decide in missile defence issue

The daily expresses its doubts about the Danish government's plans to participate in the US misile defence project in Europe: "The prospect of the US involving the former Warsaw Pact countries is inducing Russia to warn of the dangers of the plan. It is accusing the US of violating old disarmament agreements and is threatening to retaliate by aiming Russian nuclear missiles at the base. Some countries are against the US's plans because it could damage relations between Europe and Russia. In particular France, Austria and Luxembourg are concerned that Europe could become a stage for rearmament, just as it was in the Cold War... For this reason it should be left to NATO to decide about the missile defence shield in Europe. The US's single-handed approach, which involves negotiating with individual European states, could divide Europe."

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