I missed this from last week. I wonder what the thoughts of our EU posters are about a European army.
"The European Union should form its own combined army that could play a role in peacekeeping and preventing conflict, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said.
In an interview with Italian newspaper La Stampa, Tajani said that closer European cooperation on defence was a priority for the Forza Italia party that he leads.
"If we want to be peacekeepers in the world, we need a European military. And this is a fundamental precondition to be able to have an effective European foreign policy," he said in an interview published on Sunday.
""In a world with powerful players like the United States, China, India, Russia - with crises from the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific - Italian, German, French or Slovenian citizens can only be protected by something that already exists, namely the European Union," he added."
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italian-foreign-minister-calls-formation-eu-army-2024-01-07/
Wouldn’t a EU army have the same issues as the Austro-Hungarian army but on steroids?
