Come on guys! get real..
No-one is going to spend a whole lot more on the military in Europe
They'll form a "European Army" and it will employ a few staff guys and be a useful spot to dump moribund officers at the end of their careers..... and it will be located somewhere where they need the votes
Units currently "declared" to NATO will also be "declared" to the EU Army. Once or twice a year there'll be some maneuvers where the French & German politicians will turn up, be photographed and everyone will go home
In Italy we still fondly remember the Terzo corpo designato d'Armata
"Though commanded by a real Lieutenant General, headquartered in Padua, Italy's so-called Terzo corpo designato d'Armata was a fiction - a giant cold-war bluff. It was dreamed up in the early 50s to convince Moscow that Nato's frontline was altogether more solid than was the case. Successive commanders and their minuscule staffs generated mountains of paperwork to show that any commie troops breaching the Yugoslav border would have to reckon with an entire army corps, up to 300,000-strong, on the flat Venetian hinterland. Troops - most of them imaginary - were recruited and promoted, fuel was notionally stored, and ammunition supposedly distributed in perhaps the most elaborate exercise ever in Italian fantasia."