at best agnostic towards the EU or at worst totally anti would have been a disaster. Now, five more years of Macron open up a whole new world of possibilities for the EU, and a far more grandiose vision of European integration and development than was possible previously. Emmanuel Macron is a firm believer in the importance of the EU, and in the need for further and faster European integration. There is a sense of frustration that the 27 EU nations which have a population of 447 million, according to ‘eurostat,’ and, if their Gross Domestic Products (GDP) were combined they would be one of the top three economic powers in the world, along with the US and China, have done such a bad job in projecting the power and influence of the EU. Troops from the Belgian Land Component and the French Army working together with VBMR Griffon vehicles on exercise at Bergen-Höhne in Germany. Belgium is to purchase 60 EBRC Jaguar and 382 Griffon vehicles under the CaMo programme. (Photo: Belgian Land Component/ Vincent Bondignon) 50 · MT 3/2022 Nations in Focus
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