Europe's divided response to Middle East conflict
Just read about how European countries are struggling to form a united response to the US-Israel actions in the Middle East. While they condemn Iran's retaliatory strikes, their reactions to the initial conflict are all over the place. Spain evicted US military aircraft, Germany supports US goals, and the UK allows defensive use of its bases. Meanwhile, EU members are starting to rally around mutual defense concepts, with Greece, France, and Britain sending military assets to protect Cyprus. The real challenge? Cyprus is EU but not NATO, so they can't use NATO's collective defense clause - they'd need to invoke the EU's Article 42.7 instead. Shows how complex European security cooperation really is.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news