The EU should allow for a coalition of the willing on defence - March 6 2017

"The creation of the European Defence Union is in the ultimate interest of the European Union. On the way towards a European Defence Union we have to transfer today’s isolated islands of military ad-hoc cooperation into the so-called Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO). Member States can do this now, with a qualified majority vote, without changing the EU Treaty. PESCO has the European added-value that we can use EU funds for financing peacetime cooperation of military units and the headquarters”, said Michael Gahler MEP, EPP Group Spokesman on security and defence. [...]