近年来，马德里和巴黎等欧盟成员国积极推动欧盟在军事领域的自主性，旨在减少对美国等外部力量的依赖，强化内部协作与合作机制，为此，欧盟正在制定《防御战略更新指南》和《军事合作条约》，以促进成员国间的军事技术、装备和战术协调，这些举措不仅有助于提升欧盟应对全球安全威胁的能力，还为欧洲安全架构的重塑奠定了基础，成员国间在军事投入和战略利益上的分歧仍然构成挑战，尽管存在困难，欧盟军事自主的推进反映了其在维护欧洲安全与利益中的核心地位。
西班牙和法国挑战北约，推动欧洲独立发展军队
西班牙和法国与部分北约盟友决裂,坚称欧洲需要发展自身军队，减少对美国的军事依赖，两国呼吁欧洲摆脱对美国的军事绑架，构建独立的威慑力量。
西班牙外交部长表示,欧洲必须打破对美国的军事依赖，建立自己的军队，西班牙外交部长表示，美国对格陵兰的威胁是欧洲国家建立统一军队的重要契机。"不能把战争带到欧洲本土上来。"他说，"欧洲必须掌握自己的威慑力量。"
北约秘书长警告欧洲无法无美国的帮助,北约秘书长表示，欧洲必须依赖美国才能自卫，这种想法是错觉，欧洲国家需要加大防务支出，将GDP的10%用于军事，而不是目前的5%以下。
法国外交部长表示,强大的欧洲不意味着北约的终结，法国外交部长表示，欧洲必须承担起自己的安全责任，包括自主的核威慑能力。
欧洲国家目前显然无法独立自卫,但必须立即开始这个转变，西班牙外交部长表示，欧洲必须建立自己的威慑力量。"如果我们能够在外部威胁面前组建一个'愿意联盟'，为欧洲的威慑也可以组建一个。"他说。
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Spain and France have broken ranks with some of their NATO allies by insisting that Europe needs to develop its own army and wean itself off military dependence on the United States.
Jose Manuel Albares, Spain's minister of foreign affairs, European Union and cooperation, said on Tuesday that the case for a unified European army was made when the US threatened to invade Greenland — a territory administered by fellow NATO member Denmark.
"The threat of the use of force is not a tool for foreign policy," Albares said.
"You cannot bring war to European soil. It is very clear that the American administration has a new vision of trans-Atlantic security … Therefore, it's more important than ever that we have our deterrence in our hands," he said.
The continent is obviously not yet ready to defend itself without the help of the US, but it should start to move in that direction without delay, he told reporters.
"I am very much aware that you don't do that from one day to the other, but if we are doing a coalition of the willing when it comes to security for external threats to Europe, we can very well do it for us, for our deterrence," he said.
Albares explained his thinking after Mark Rutte, secretary-general of NATO, said on Monday that Europe would be incapable of defending itself without the help of the US, and that Europeans were deluded if they thought they could.
"If anyone thinks here, again, that the European Union, or Europe as a whole, can defend itself without the US, keep on dreaming," Rutte told lawmakers during a committee meeting at the European Parliament.
"You can't. We can't. We need each other," he said.
European countries would have to spend 10 percent of their GDP on defense, instead of the current 5 percent or less, to get an effective military force without US involvement, he said.
"You'd have to build up your own nuclear capability. That costs billions and billions of euros," Rutte added.
Defending self
Albares responded by saying he believes Europe will eventually be able to defend itself without the help of the US, which has massively contributed to European security ever since the end of World War II in 1945.
However, he said the continent, which already has significant economic power, must develop additional political power and independence without becoming more aggressive, by nurturing and strengthening deterrents.
Jean-Noel Barrot, France's foreign minister, shared the view, saying on X that a stronger Europe does not mean the end of NATO.
"No, dear Mark Rutte," he wrote. "Europeans can and must take charge of their own security. Even the United States agrees. It is the European pillar of NATO."
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