EU ARMY One Step Closer: ‘We Should Have Created Force YESTERDAY’ Says Italian MP

• EU ARMY One Step Closer: ‘We Should Have Created Force YESTERDAY’ Says Italian MP
  by JOEY MILLAR, http://www.express.co.uk/  
  THE PROPOSED European Union (EU) Army should have been created “yesterday”, an Italian minister has declared, bringing the controversial military force one step closer to reality.
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  Sandro Gozi, who is a member of the Democratic Party and The Party of European Socialists, has become the latest Eurocrat to voice their support for the continental army. Mr Gozi told Politico: “If it was up to me we would have done the EU army yesterday.” 
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  He joins a number of other EU officials who are calling for the army, including Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban. My Orban said last month: “We should list the issue of security as a priority, and we should start setting up a common European army.”
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  He was joined by Czech PM Bohuslav Sobotka, who said building a joint army would not be an “easy project” but was essential in ensuring members of the 28-country bloc could coordinate their defence strategies.
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  The United Kingdom has long opposed such a joint force – and the country’s opposition before Brexit was potentially the last chance Europe had to avoid such an amalgamation. Following this summer’s historic in-out referendum result, German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen revealed Britain had “paralysed” the fighting force’s development and “blocked everything that had Europe written on it”.
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  After the 52 to 48 per cent Leave victory, Mrs von der Leyen said: “Europeans are right to expect the EU to tackle the big questions. We now have that opportunity.” 
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  Mr Gozi has also called for border guards is migrant partnership with Africa, to reduce the amount of people smugglers and migrants.
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