Security and defense are truly a priority for the member states of the European Union: fact of hoax?

Abstract

All the often-contradictory hoaxes concerning the European Union (EU) are so-called Euro-myths. They mostly have a negative tone and try to denigrate this institution. Their emergence is caused by the fact that individual states often need more information about what is happening in the EU, and the complex mechanism of the Union's functioning is difficult to understand. Therefore, when the next "EU wants to ban something" comes out, ordinary people tend to take it as a given without verifying the information, ensuring the defence of freedom, independence, sovereignty, territorial integrity, and population belongs to the main objective of each state. Thus, in response to the current political, security and economic situation, countries must earmark, within the framework of their national budgets, a proportion of the available resources to ensure their defence. The aim of this paper, based on current trends in the defence budgets of the EU member states, is to point out, that not only the global economic and financial crisis and the credit and debt crisis in the Euro-area have a significant negative impact on the amount of resources, which individual EU member states earmark to ensure their defence, but, in addition, all these aspects should be precisely understood, bearing in mind, the growing influence of disinformation spread, leveraged by the hoax rising influence.

Role of ideology in social and political development (extremism and pacifism)

“…Similarly, the defence against the growing radicalism and extremism in democracy manifests itself in two ways: on the one hand, the practical idea of the power of the citizen (through the constitution and laws) is postulated so that society is not dominated by hostile and uncontrollable forces (Ivančík & Nečas, 2023). Similarly, defence against the growing radicalism and extremism takes shape towards two initiations: on the one hand, it is the practical idea of the power of citizens (through constitutions and law) being postulated to prevent harmful and uncontrollable forces from taking control over society.…”