NATO suggests Europe fight crisis through militarization

 The military operation in Libya showed that Europe lacks certain kinds of armaments, which is why, despite the economic problems, European members of NATO need to buy new armaments, the General Secretary of the alliance Anders Fog Rasmussen told Gazeta Wyborcza.

According to him, during the Libyan campaign the European countries were at the forefront of events, but they couldn’t manage without American weaponry. “The operation showed the serious disadvantages of Europe, which Americans had to fix. For example, an insufficient number of refuelling tankers and unmanned aircraft.

Europe has to have its own armaments, that is why we have to invest in it in future years,” Rasmussen said in an interview published on Monday.

Answering a question on the format of the alliance war games Steadfast Jazz, which will take place in Eastern Europe in 2013, Rasmussen agreed that they shouldn’t be administrative, News Azerbaijan reported.