Missile Crises: Opposition to U.S. missile system grows in Europe
The planned U.S. anti-missile system in Eastern Europe is facing growing opposition from politicians and the public in the European Union. Ahead of this week's summit of EU leaders in Brussels, Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn said the system, which foresees ten bunker-protected missiles to be stationed in Poland and a radar unit in the Czech Republic to fend off nuclear warheads from North Korea and Iran, destabilized the continent.
"We will have no stability in Europe if we corner the Russians," he said, according to German online daily Netzeitung. In the Czech Republic, opposition to the system is growing. Roughly seven of ten Czechs are against participating in the defense system, and 80 percent feel a referendum should be the basis of the country's decision whether or not to do so.
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