Another wasteful expenditure, because Russia cannot keep to itself.

well we are all part off NATO so that's kinda irreverent surely because if any member of NATO is attacked the other members have to come to the attacked country's defense.

No more "the United States isn't doing enough to help"? That would take getting used to.

It's something pretty obvious and several countries worked on it for a long time. The best things we achieved until now are common exercises, France-UK treaty (and Libya intervention) and only one big EU operation against pirates in Somalia. It was a success, but there is a lack of political willpower to do more than that.

The weakening of the US and OTAN support should push EU politicians to support this army again.

Let's translate this... oh, right, bombing more brown people...

The EU already outspends Russia 4 to 1 Military wise and has more personal etc, In a battle Russia would gets its ass kicked, Hell they couldn't even beat Afghanistan. So I don't think the EU needs to be concerned

Well, thats true.But then again, they kinda do already have one.When one country is atacked, like a user said, all the other countries in the EU need to come to their aid.But they need to make it more uniform, as in a more "european" army, to maybe make the burocracy easier?

All in all, he has a point.

THE END IS NEAR!!! THE END IS NEAR!!!

I think the EU should start building defences, and perhaps use Canadian and Mexican land as a position to set up missiles and military outposts as a first line of defence.

Canada and US are interlinked for the most part in terms of aero-defensive system called NORAD. Do not think USA and Canada would be happy about Europe being included in that.