Posted on 09/17/2016 10:26:24 AM PDT by Lorianne
The European Union needs a military headquarters to work towards a common military force, the Commission president has told MEPs in Strasbourg.
Jean-Claude Juncker said the lack of a "permanent structure" resulted in money being wasted on missions.
Part of his annual state of the union address was devoted to the UK's unexpected vote to leave the EU.
He insisted that the bloc was not at risk but called for Brexit negotiations to take place as quickly as possible.
Modelled on the state of the union address by the US president, the Commission president's annual speech was introduced in 2010 to detail the state of the EU and future legislative plans.
Won't a common military force interfere with Nato?
The Brexit vote has given added impetus to plans for greater defence co-operation, because the UK has always objected to the potential conflict of interest with Nato.
But Mr Juncker said a common military force "should be in complement to Nato". "More defence in Europe doesn't mean less transatlantic solidarity."
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I think a grand first project for US - Russian cooperation would be smuggling small arms to European and perhaps British civilians.
And their recruiting pool would be filled with people of divided loyalties who cannot otherwise find work. Best they could do would be a foreign legion model: train them up, keep them deployed for ten years and empty out their own countries.
And we could call the project Furious and Fast, or something.
The ‘EU’ builds a military headquarters.
Good!
This negates the need for the U.S. to spend one more penny for NATO, since the two alphabetic terms (’EU’, ‘NATO’) are not interchangeable, since we are NOT a member of the ‘EU’.
Just so long as we can call the EUrocrats history.
Ja, the Fourth Reich needs military force too.
Perfidious Albion is causing trouble, again.
He should check out this address: In den Ministergärten, 10117 Berlin. It needs some water damage control, updating, and general TLC, but would make a really spiffing HQ.
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