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Yes, it’s impossible to get every country to agree on something like this. We can’t even agree on simple topics, and even if we did, there’d be nothing to stop future governments from acting differently.
The whole concept of the EU needs to be reworked so that it has a central government with greater authority over its member countries.
Obviously, but we can’t have a unified army or defence force without it. Countries close to a conflict will want to use the army to defend their people, while those further away will try to prevent their people from being involved.
Neither is wrong, because we are not a federation and our individual countries are still more important than the union as a whole.
Yes, it’s impossible to get every country to agree on something like this. We can’t even agree on simple topics, and even if we did, there’d be nothing to stop future governments from acting differently.
The whole concept of the EU needs to be reworked so that it has a central government with greater authority over its member countries.
Ideas like this are exactly why the UK left though. Noone wants to be forced into something the don’t want to do, particularly wars.
Obviously, but we can’t have a unified army or defence force without it. Countries close to a conflict will want to use the army to defend their people, while those further away will try to prevent their people from being involved.
Neither is wrong, because we are not a federation and our individual countries are still more important than the union as a whole.