A policy dialogue about a European army will be hosted by The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies on Thursday. The event is part of the Conference on the Future of Europe

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  6. EU Army’s first problem: which language to use?

    France will object if it’s German and Germany will object if its French. The solution is to use English…oh wait.

  13. Yeah it’s time. We can’t continue to rely on the US to protect us from Russia & China. A reckoning will come

  14. Can’t recommend this guy enough. Listen to his podcasts in Dutch, really amazing and open view on geopolitics.

  15. We need to ccoperate to protect our interests in a world where Europe isn’t the Centre of global geopolitics anymore

  17. No, it’ll cost all the money, rest in the hands of people who are far removed from local governments and it’ll be used against somebody.

    There aren’t any reason for a “MEGAARMY”. Germany should not rearm an the rest of us really aren’t in a good position to kill all the people.

  18. I am fundamentally opposed to a European army. This goes against the fundamental purpose for setting up the original European project. The role of the EU is to encourage cooperation and diplomatic solutions to complex international problems and most importantly prevent war.

  19. Eu Army, Eu Navy, Eu Air force just do it already we are falling behind the world if we keep working by our own and not as a main body

  20. I hope ireland decides to take their military seriously and start pumping some money into it. I heard that it is planned we may treble out military to 3bn, get radar, actual fighter jets and not props, rename naval service to irish navy, etc.

  22. I think for the EU to have any kind of functional army it will need to become more of a federation than a coalition. Less a tight alliance full of separate nations but a loose nation full of culturally different states

    Basically if the US is to have one military it needs to be far more united than it is now

  25. An EU army would be much more benefitial than NATO. As long as we remain part of NATO, we will remain to be the USA’s lackeys. We need an army to defend ourselves and our interests without external meddling.

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