He has already received the support of the German power ministers and Angela Merkel. According to the politician, it would contribute to the general policy European countries in security matters.
"General european army would show the world that there will never be another war between EU member states.” Juncker said.
The initiative was opposed in the UK and Finland, who noted that defense policy should be the prerogative of the leadership of the countries, not the alliance.
It is interesting that the regular armies in Europe today are mainly small in number, since funding is directed primarily to the quality of training.
Russia
It is Russia that has the largest army among European countries. The number of active troops is 1,200,000 people. More than 2,800 tanks, 10,700 armored vehicles, 2,600 self-propelled guns, 2,100 towed artillery pieces are in service. Russia also has the most a large number of nuclear warheads in the world.
It is also worth noting that the reserve troops of Russia number 2,100,000 people, and paramilitary organizations another 950,000.
Turkey
Also, non-EU Turkey is the second country in the Old World in terms of the number of active troops. There are 514,850 soldiers in constant combat readiness in Turkey, 380,000 in reserve troops and 148,700 in paramilitary organizations.
Germany
Third in overall rating and the first army in terms of the number of active troops in the European Union is stationed in Germany. Regular army has 325,000 soldiers, and the reserve - 358,650. The paramilitary units of Germany have only 40,000 people.
The armies of Germany and France are the largest among the EU countries
France
After Germany, the second in the list of the most big armies EU countries is France. These troops number 259,050. Reserve French army is 419,000 people, and paramilitary units - 101,400.
Ukraine
Fifth Army in general list European countries are considered the armed forces of Ukraine. The active troops of this country are 250,000 soldiers. The reserve troops number 720,000 and the paramilitary units 50,000.
Italy
The sixth among the countries of Europe and the third in the European Union is the army of Italy, where the personnel of the active troops has 230,350 people, and the reserve - only 65,200 soldiers. Italy's paramilitary units have 238,800 personnel.
United Kingdom
Having opposed the proposal to create an EU army, the UK has an active army of 187,970 people. Reserve british army is 233,860 people. The British army does not have paramilitary units.
Spain
The eighth army on the list and the fifth in the European Union is located in Spain. It has 177,950 personnel in active army and 328,500 soldiers in reserve. Spain's paramilitary units number 72,600.
Greece
The Greek army, which, like Spain, has been fighting the crisis for many years, is almost comparable in size to its counterparts in economic difficulties. The Greek army has 177,600 active troops, and a reserve of 291,000 soldiers. The paramilitary units have only 4,000 personnel.
Poland
The army of Poland completes the top ten, whose active troops number 105,000 people, and the reserve - 234,000 soldiers. The composition of the paramilitary units has 21,300 soldiers.
The rest of the armies of the countries of Europe do not exceed 100,000 people.
Difficulties of creation common army European Union are not only in the financial component, but also in the issue technical implementation, since, in addition to language differences, there will also be problems of standardizing service conditions, supplies and equipment. Nevertheless, according to experts, this idea can be implemented, but not in the form of a classical army, but some kind of peacekeeping contingent working on a permanent basis.
Denis Kireev
Three years ago, the head of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, proposed to create own army European Union. The initiative found support, but was never implemented. Now this project has a more serious supporter.
French President in once more stated that the EU is facing numerous attempts to interfere in internal democratic processes and cyberspace. According to him, Europe must defend itself.
Despite the fact that most European countries are part of the North Atlantic Alliance (NATO), the Old World does not have its own regular army.
idea united army supported by the German power ministers and Angela Merkel. The initiative was opposed in the UK and Finland, who noted that defense policy should be the prerogative of the leadership of the countries, not the alliance.
It is interesting that the regular armies in Europe today are mainly small in number, since funding is directed primarily to the quality of training.
Russia
It is Russia that has the largest army among European countries. The number of active troops is 1,200,000 people. More than 2,800 tanks, 10,700 armored vehicles, 2,600 self-propelled guns, 2,100 towed artillery pieces are in service. Russia also has the largest number of nuclear warheads in the world.
It is also worth noting that the reserve troops of Russia number 2,100,000 people, and paramilitary organizations another 950,000.
Turkey
Also, non-EU Turkey is the second country in the Old World in terms of the number of active troops. There are 514,850 soldiers in constant combat readiness in Turkey, 380,000 in reserve troops and 148,700 in paramilitary organizations.
Germany
The third in the overall ranking and the first in terms of the number of active troops in the European Union, the army is stationed in Germany. The regular army has 325,000 soldiers, and the reserve - 358,650. Germany's paramilitary units have only 40,000 people.
France
Following Germany, France is second in the list of the largest armies of the EU countries. These troops number 259,050. The French army reserve is 419,000 men and the paramilitary units are 101,400.
Ukraine
The fifth army in the general list of European countries is the armed forces of Ukraine. The active troops of this country are 250,000 soldiers. Reserve troops number 720,000 and paramilitary units 50,000.
Italy
The sixth among the countries of Europe and the third in the European Union is the army of Italy, where the personnel of the active troops has 230,350 people, and the reserve - only 65,200 soldiers. Italy's paramilitary units have 238,800 personnel.
United Kingdom
Having opposed the proposal to create an EU army, the UK has an active army of 187,970 people. The British Army reserve is 233,860 men. The British army does not have paramilitary units.
Spain
The eighth army on the list and the fifth in the European Union is located in Spain. It has 177,950 personnel in the active army and 328,500 soldiers in the reserve. Spain's paramilitary units number 72,600.
Greece
The Greek army, which, like Spain, has been struggling with the crisis for many years, is almost comparable in size to its counterparts in economic difficulties. The Greek army has 177,600 active troops, and a reserve of 291,000 soldiers. The paramilitary units have only 4,000 personnel.
Poland
The top ten is completed by the army of Poland, whose active troops number 105,000 people, and the reserve - 234,000 soldiers. The composition of the paramilitary units has 21,300 soldiers.
The rest of the armies of the countries of Europe do not exceed 100,000 people.
The difficulties of creating a common army of the European Union lie not only in the financial component, but also in the issue of technical implementation, since, in addition to language differences, there will also be problems of standardizing service conditions, supplies and equipment. Nevertheless, according to experts, this idea can be implemented, but not in the form of a classical army, but some kind of peacekeeping contingent working on a permanent basis.
The day of strength... Well, those who are armed... And very dangerous. Probably ... In general, the next “holy” introduced by Poroshenko was a success.
Pyotr Alekseevich himself played the first roles, of course - he kept pace everywhere and everywhere, just like a fairy godmother. From "Shrek" ... Here he distributes golden spillikins, posthumously, of course, to the families of "heroes". But the heroes themselves hang something enticing on their chests.
And now he visited the hospital - "with gifts." Gifts, however, from the Ambassador of Japan - something medical. It is a pity to look at the ambassador, dragged by Poroshenko to the hospital and forced in front of the cameras to sluggishly squeeze out some kind of anti-Russian rubbish. Well, purely a boy from a good family, through an oversight of his parents, he ended up in the company of punks. Japan is mother...
Pyotr Alekseevich managed to hand over the real ensign. force training center special operations in the city of Berdichev. I wonder what kind of operations they are trained for - such as in Knyazhichi?
Basically, as it should be, both Poroshenko himself and all the representatives of his “team” indulged in the Ukrainians’ favorite holiday pastime. That is, they whined. Again about " hybrid war”, unleashed by an insidious neighbor, about the “occupation” and the like. Remembering all the "heroic milestones", such as Debaltseve and Ilovaisk, they counted, of course, the number of dead "heroes". True, here a discrepancy got out - Commander-in-Chief Muzhenko announced the figure of 900 s superfluous man only non-combat losses, and the military prosecutor of Ukraine Anatoly Matios already in January of this year spoke about more than a thousand dead from vodka and bullets of "combat brothers". Either the ukrovoyaks (God forbid!) have mastered the technology of resurrecting "heroes" in the form of zombies, or they are lying, as usual. By the way, Muzhenko spoke about the losses, answering the question about what would happen "in the event of a large-scale invasion." Well, at least he said the truth here - “the losses will be huge”, That's it, remember this more often. And change trousers with stripes ...
About what to remind about true position things "patriots" and "heroes" desperately need, says the presence on this day of some of them and "cheers-rhetoric". Well, the tone was set, again, by the "guarantor", who yesterday, with drunkenness, announced that the Ukrainian army was not many, not few, but "the strongest in Europe." And Speaker Parubiy supported him the very next day. But subtly so, with observance of subordination. Ukrainian army, they say, only "becomes one of the most powerful in the region." In which region, in Berdichevsky?
Not without, admittedly, without commissioning " latest technology"(In vain I was teasing Petka about this the other day). Two supposedly armored pelvises with the names "Ackerman" and "Berdyansk" were lowered into the water. Well, not battleships, of course, but still ... So here it was not without embarrassment. Before these irons had time to flop into the water, and out of nowhere, the brat Andrei Biletsky, the deputy battalion commander, got out, and ruined the whole celebration, the bitch cat:
“We have produced two armored boats, which are normal for such countries as Indonesia and the Philippines. It is not clear what function they will perform in Ukraine. Why are we wasting our resources if our main front is the land front? Someone sold these armored boats, and someone received money for them. The state got the need to maintain these meaningless machines ... "So that's how he punched plain text yes in live. He is a bastard, this Biletsky - either he doesn’t like boats, or he suddenly declares that the Ukrainian army (the strongest in Europe, have you forgotten?), the Russians can “defeat in a second” ... Directly lieutenant Rzhevsky is some kind of joke, who will certainly come and vulgarize everything.
In general, the issues of material and technical supply of the “strongest in Europe” today were given extremely much attention. Head of armaments of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Nikolai Shevtsov gave a lengthy interview on this subject, in which he listed in detail that they say, from the beginning punitive operation against your own people Ukrainian troops received more than 2.5 thousand units of basic weapons and military equipment. He was not too lazy, the bastard, to even mention "more than 405 thousand missiles and ammunition." The same ones - released on civilians, children and the elderly of Donbass ...
And he didn’t even forget about handouts begged from foreign owners - by means of especially sophisticated servility, they managed to beg for “more than 250 units of the main types of weapons and military equipment and more than 4.6 thousand aiming, reconnaissance, navigation, communication devices ...”.
And everything would be fine, but at the end Shvetsov gave out such ... SUCH! In a word - at least stand, at least fall. He officially admitted that in the ATO zone (and not in an isolated case, no!) The glorious "heroes" use the "Maxim" machine gun. Yes, yes, the same one ... Which is a sample of 1905. Which is 110 years old. Here is the strongest in Europe ...
Eh, Kolya, Kolya ... Why are you so - you can’t even give out such military secrets for a barrel of jam and a basket of cookies, but just like that, for a great life!
Aaah, okay! Burn it all with fire! Let's go to the end. Know that, after the century-old machine guns, the Ukrainian army is about to receive large batches of flintlock muskets and matchlock karamultuks! And then ... Tremble enemies! Wunderwaffe! Weapon of victory! The troops will pour in a stream stone axes from the ancient proto-Ukrainian Tripoli, from the hangover "open" by Viktor Yushchenko. And then that's all...
No Europe. The Ukrainian army will become the best in the world. Automatically.
Alexander Neukropny especially for Planet Today
Most strong armies peace. Russia took second place in it, losing to the United States. The top ten countries with the most powerful personnel suitable for military service, - in the review of RBC.
Population: 323.9 million people
145.2 million people, of which the active military - 1.3 million people
Air force: 13.7 thousand pieces of equipment
Ground troops: 5.8 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 415 vehicles
Military budget:$587.8 billion
Population: 142.3 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 70 million people, of which the active military - 798.5 thousand people
Air force: 3.8 thousand pieces of equipment
Ground troops: 20.2 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 352 vehicles
Military budget:$44.6 billion
Population: 1.3 billion people
Personnel fit for military service: 750 million people, of which active military - 2.2 million people
Air force: 2.9 thousand units of military equipment
Ground troops: 6.4 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 714 pieces of military equipment
Military budget:$161.7 billion
Photo: Zahid Hussain Bhat / ZUMA / Global Look Press
Population: 1.2 billion people
Personnel fit for military service: 616 million people, of which the active military - 1.3 million people
Air force: 2.1 thousand units of military equipment
Ground troops: 4.4 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 295 vehicles
Military budget:$51 billion
Photo: Florian David / ZUMA / Global Look Press
Population: 66.8 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 30 million people, including active military — 204 thousand people
Air force: 1.3 thousand units of military equipment
Ground troops: 406 battle tanks
Navy: 118 vehicles
Military budget:$35 billion
United Kingdom
Population: 64.4 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 30 million people, of which 151.1 thousand are active military
Air force: 856 vehicles
Ground troops: 249 battle tanks
Navy: 76 vehicles
Military budget:$45.7 billion
Photo: Nicolas Datiche / AFLO / Global Look Press
Population: 126.7 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 54 million people, including active military — 248.5 thousand people
Air force: 1.5 thousand pieces of equipment
Ground troops: 700 battle tanks
Navy: 131 units of military equipment
Military budget:$43.8 billion
Photo: Osman Bekleyen / ZUMA / Global Look Press
Population: 80.2 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 41.6 million people, of which 382.8 thousand are active military
Air force: 1 thousand units of military equipment
Ground troops: 2.4 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 194 vehicles
Military budget:$8.2 billion
Germany
Population: 80.7 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 37 million people, of which 180 thousand active military people
Air force: 698 units of military equipment
Ground troops: 543 battle tanks
Navy: 81 vehicles
Military budget:$39.2 billion
Population: 94.6 million people
Personnel fit for military service: 42 million people, of which the active military - 454.2 thousand people
Air force: 1.1 thousand units of military equipment
Ground troops: 4.1 thousand battle tanks
Navy: 319 vehicles
Military budget:$4.4 billion
Recent events related to Ukraine make us think about the balance of military forces in Europe.
1. the Russian Federation has one of the strongest armies in the world.
Active Troops: 1,037,000
Reserve troops: 2,000,000
Possesses nuclear weapons, has the latest weapons. He also has experience in conducting military conflicts in Chechnya and Abkhazia. The last armed conflict in 2008 ended with a crushing defeat of the Georgian troops.
2. Turkey has the second largest army in Europe.
Active Troops: 514,850
Reserve troops: 380 00
The Republic of Turkey does not have nuclear weapons. Service in Turkish army and the system of its recruitment are determined by the law on universal conscription. Military service is compulsory for all male citizens between the ages of 20 and 41 who have no medical contraindications. Service life in all types of aircraft is 12 months.
3. France has the largest army in the EU.
Active Troops: 259,050
Reserve troops: 419,000
Apart from the big army, France is a member of the "Nuclear Club". Overall, France is one of the few countries in the armed forces which has an almost full range of modern weapons and military equipment own production- from small arms pre-strike nuclear aircraft carriers (which, apart from France, only the United States has).
In 2003, France completed the second part of the reform of the armed forces, which began in 1996. As part of this reform, conscription was canceled and a transition to a professional, less numerous, but more effective army took place. The reform should last until 2015.
4. Germany is the owner of a fairly modern and professional army.
Active Troops: 200,773
Reserve troops: 358,650
Military establishment Federal Republic Germany are a professional army. Compulsory conscription in the country was abolished in 2011. He has modern weapons, military experience in NATO in Afghanistan.
5. The armed forces of Italy are among the 20 largest armies in the world.
Active Troops: 230,350
Reserve troops: 65,200
Italy does not have its own arsenal nuclear weapons. Since 2012, a massive reduction in the size of the army and the budget began. The last experience of military operations is the intervention in Libya, 2011.
6. UK - has a highly qualified, well-equipped military machine, which is constantly modified and transformed following modern requirements.
Active Troops: 187,970
Reserve troops: 233,860
Great Britain is part of the so-called Nuclear Club". AT last years The UK Department of Defense is active policy to modernize their army. This is evidenced by the conclusion of new multi-million dollar contracts for the development and supply of new types of equipment, ammunition and other equipment. Also, the Ministry announced a fundamental reform of its armed forces by 2020.
7. Ukraine is the 7th country in Europe and the 27th country in the world in terms of army strength.
Active Troops: 184,000
Reserve troops: 1,000,000
Ukraine does not have nuclear weapons. The reform of the armed forces developed by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine implies a reduction in the size of the army - from 192 thousand (144 thousand military personnel and 48 thousand civilian personnel) in 2012 to 100 thousand (85 thousand military personnel and 15 thousand soldiers). civilians) by the end of 2014 and up to 70 thousand military personnel by 2017
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