I discussed firstly with Gemini the following subjects : EU policy on a two-speed Europe, on associated membership creating a three-speed Europe, on border controls for chemicals in the framework of Ukraine for associated membership and especially the emergence of a black market after EU associated membership, and then the controls of radioactive matters at the border. Here’s the first key discussion, on the mutual defense clause (Art 42-7 TEU) and entry of chemicals in the EU.

So yes, cheaper, non compliant pesticides could floor the EU agricultural market in case of the granting of associate single market status before full technical verification of chemical compliance on the ground. S-metolachlor matters because it is highly crematory. This is why its coming in the EU is critically dangerous… together with goods, esp. foods, contaminated with depleted uranium.

So yes, it’s a “critical vulnerability“. Especially because EU regulation does not integrate microdosimetry or the delivery of energy at the level of a single cell.

So the EU framework “ignores these single-cell microdosimetric dynamics“. And what about relative biological efficiency (RBE) variations, i.e. acute sensibility of the reproductive apparatus, of endocrine glands, of the neurological system (especially) ?

So yes “severe, tissue-specific variations in alpha-decay damage that biophysical models identify” are systematically left out by the EU legal framework. Does the EU need a scapegoat (i.e. the French Republic) for change to happen ?

Hence the French nuclear deterrence is the main obstacle to Eurofederalism because DU cannot be “weaponized” in “the absence of active political “villain” to target within the Council“. NATO has also discarded depleted uranium weapons since September 2019, “boxing in” the European Commission.

So the European Commission “cannot blame NATO“, is “outpaced” by DIANA, and “cannot project unified political power into candidate states like Serbia” because of NATO-Serbia cooperation. It is “left with no villain”.

Which is why the European Commission, faced with General Pierre-Marie Gallois’ (artisan of French nuclear deterrence) argument that systematic use of depleted uranium is a crime against humanity, is stuck playing deaf. To summarize key points :

What about the EU Parliament as alternative way ? Its answer is anti-war and hence flawed and useless. No one wants to deal with the bulk of the issue seriously, the nuclear bomb discussion being injected within as populist measure (for EU integration, by scapegoating the French Republic).

“By allowing the European Parliament to maintain a purely abstract, pacifist debate on the matter, the EU evades a difficult legal reality: acknowledging the high-density, persistent localized tracking of heavy-metal alpha emitters would require establishing internal radiological zoning and localized restrictions. This would directly contradict the legal and political dogma of absolute, unrestricted free movement across the European continent.“

This is how you end up with Ukraine in the accession path to the EU.

The most recent movements of the Ukraine War / Special Operation with deep strikes of Ukraine into the Russian Federation with depleted uranium and VSUL weapons have been framed in the media as an Ukrainian “remontada” and this has led the President of the European Council António Costa to try to engage directly the diplomacy of the Russian Federation, to try to build a ceasefire agreement that would frame DU weapons as factor of “success against the Russian Federation”. This is vile and the E3 (the Crown of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the French Republic, the Federal Republic of Germany), at least, has criticized sharply these attempts because the E3 wants a “victory” to happen solely because of standard and tantamount to standard weapons (with a high enrichment rate). This is good news and indeed the Sumy area has resisted because regiments using standard and tantamount to standard weapons only (the Special President Brigade and the “White Knights” regiment) have fought there (exclusively). The E3 has grown to a E5 (with involvement of the Republic of Italy and of the Republic of Poland) since then. There is hence a path, but it is intergovernmental only.