Once Germany does this, and make no mistake-a European army is a German Army, do we really want Gernmany under a would be totalitarian woman to develop a real military capable of real deployment and real action outside of Germany? Germany does have a history of three major aggressive wars against its neighbors in 70 years.
Not sure the German military is up to the task. And with other European nations, having very small militaries, the EU army sin’t goign to be much.
Some of those countries military assets, in total, don’t add up to 100,000 folks.