Estimates and announcements that followed the official acceptance of the EU General Affairs Council of Security Regulation in Europe respond to diplomatic sources, arguing that these are crises that have nothing to do with reality.
The same sources note that the Safe Regulation It is a specific four -year (limited, that is,) funding program and therefore it is inaccurate that it opens the way for permanent participation of third countries in EU equipment programs.
At the same time, they note that it is inaccurate to claim that Greece could block the adoption of the regulation, as it was adopted by a special majority. They agreed 26 of the 27 Member States, including Cyprus.
The same sources point out that the rest of the Member States were in favor of adopting the regulation, even in its original version before the Greek proposals. It could therefore have been adopted without any change. Greece, during the negotiations, has managed to secure strong legal basis for the conditions for participation of candidates to join countries, so it is inaccurate that Greece does not was able to pass substantial improvements to the draft regulation.
Inaccurate they also claim the claim that Greece will have no reason to have any future EU-Troid Agreement because the involvement of third countries in Safe is automatic after the regulation is passed. As they explain, the regulation sets the general framework of the procedure. Bilateral EU agreements with the third country will follow, provided that the conditions are met. Therefore, the stage of the bilateral agreement will concern each particular country is crucial. Greek intervention, to sign any such bilateral agreement requires unanimity, under Article 212 TFEU, in conjunction with Article 218 TFEU. This results from the causal thinking no. 23 of the Regulation in conjunction with the statement of the Commission recorded in the minutes of the May 18 Coreper II meeting that it intends to use Article 212 TFEU as a legal basis for these agreements.
Finally, in the claim that Greece did not take into account the participation of third countries its national interests, Foreign Ministry sources respond that Greece has managed to be included in Article 16 of the Safe Regulation on the rules of the eligibility of companies and entities and entities and entities as a prerequisite for Member States.
“In conclusion, and unanimity and take into account national security interests. Complex foreign policy issues must be studied in depth and are not capable of superficial and arbitrary interpretation of serving political purposes. It requires severity proportional to the gravity of issues’, The same sources end up.