Manifesto CoreForeign Policy and Defense
Foreign Policy Doctrine
Strategic independence rather than imperial ambition, guided by prudence, legitimate national interest and a strong presumption against unnecessary war.
Policy catalogueForeign Policy and Defense
Agreed PolicyNuclear Weapons
Restore Europe supports verifiable multilateral reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear weapons.
Position
Nuclear weapons create risks and destructive capacities of a different order from ordinary conventional arms and should not be normalized as permanent instruments of policy.
Policy
- Work toward internationally verifiable reduction and eventual abolition of nuclear arsenals.
- Support serious arms-control and non-proliferation agreements.
- Oppose deliberate nuclear attacks on civilian populations.
- Oppose development of nuclear weapons merely for geopolitical prestige.
- Seek reciprocal and verifiable disarmament rather than measures that leave one country uniquely exposed to nuclear coercion.
- Maintain strong verification systems against secret retention of prohibited arsenals.
- Support measures reducing accidental or unauthorized nuclear launch risk.
- Oppose proliferation to additional nuclear-armed states.
- Keep nuclear-energy policy separate from nuclear-weapons policy.
Implementation note
Implementation note
Pope Francis has repeatedly described both the use and possession of nuclear weapons as immoral and called for disarmament. The adopted policy follows that contemporary Catholic direction.
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NATO
Restore Europe is sceptical of permanent dependence on NATO and favours greater national and European strategic independence.
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Nuclear power may be permitted and supported where it is safe, reliable, strategically useful and environmentally responsible.
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