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EU military plans re-emerge - September 6 2016

by Martin Banks

EU foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini is thought to be preparing to put forward a timetable setting out steps to create EU military structures "to act autonomously" from the western alliance. The Italian official has reportedly told diplomats from the European External Action Service that the military plan - branded by some countries as the foundation of a "European army" - represented a chance to relaunch itself after the "shocking result" of the referendum on EU membership. "We have the political space today to do things that were not really doable in previous years," Mogherini told EU ambassadors.[...]