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The expert on international relations, defense and foreign policy, Florentino Portero, gave a lecture at the UCAM

"The Atlantic Alliance does not currently have a strategy, has said that publishes documents called strategy, but you read them and there is not. We must accept that NATO is still very useful, there are things he does, that makes them very well, but as of today, not a military alliance, and not going to be in some time, "said the expert in International Relations, Defence and Foreign Policy, and professor of contemporary history at the UNED Florentino Portero, which has provided this afternoon UCAM a conference entitled 'The NATO enlargement: opportunities, benefits, risks. "

The rapporteur has said that NATO has changed its nature "because circumstances have changed, and changed its members, have come new members bring new perspectives. Has clearly date, there is not and does not seem to be have a common vision on what are the threats that we suffer and how to deal. "

Spain-NATO

On the role of Spain in NATO, Florentino Portero has ensured that Spain is a country that has unilaterally decided to entrust their defense to others, "and that's always very risky, especially if others are not quite ready to defend you, because although in economic terms is very profitable to join forces, the reality is that as we have very different strategic perceptions, is not worth joining, because at the moment of truth, we are not able to agree on how to use the defenses we have " , has qualified.

Similarly, he asserted that "The Atlantic Alliance is no longer a military alliance which was from the dissolution of the Soviet Union, and has become a club security, a place where we talk about these issues, but not is a mutual defense mechanism as it was at that time ", and added that" therefore, if NATO is not going to solve our problems, such as in Ceuta and Melilla, or migratory flows coming from Morocco and the EU is eventually turned off in the security dimension of diplomacy and defense, then you had better begin to believe that we must defend ourselves. "

Source: UCAM