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		petre 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU? What's the use of a pan EU military when most EU members are already in NATO? Just to add Austria, Cyprus and Ireland to a pan EU force? Rather than that allow a share of EU funds to be used for members' militaries and adopt common EU military policies. Also incentivize EU members to buy EU military equipment using such EU funds.

izacus 8 months ago [–]

The ability for EU common bodies to command the new army to defend their other members without being subjected to divide/conquer tactics from US, RU and CN.

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