Before the EU attempts to create a parallel military organisation to NATO, why don't they first cut their teeth on solving the human tragedy that's happening in the Med? The EU has a shameful policy vacuum regarding the migrant drownings.
This drive for an EU Army is another piece of vainglorious window-dressing by the unelected EU apparatchiks.. useful for parading through Brussels - and little else.
I think some of the Brussels suits actually believed the citation when the EU was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize (shorely shome mishtake) in 2012 for "the successful struggle for peace and reconciliation and for democracy and human rights". That Messrs van Rompuy, Barroso and Schulz had the brass neck to accept this award beggars belief.
We are well out of this nonsense.