EU Is to Create a COVID-19 Military Group

The military task force will be created in full coordination with NATO and will "use military competence at a new level." The EU is to create a military task force to combat coronavirus. The head of the EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell stated on Monday, April 6, at the press conference after video meeting the defense ministers of the community’s member countries, TASS reported. “The ministers and I decided to study how to use military competence at a new level to support the information exchange and best practices among member countries. To do this, we can create an operational group within the EU’s foreign policy service under the leadership of military personnel,” Borrell said. He stressed out that this is to be done in full coordination with NATO and in addition to it. Recall that today Angela Merkel stated coronavirus caused the most serious crisis in the EU history. Earlier, Borrell called on Europe to help neighbors coping with the pandemic.