France to Launch ‘EUROPEAN ARMY’ by June – And the UK is Invited to Join Even AFTER Brexit

• France to Launch ‘EUROPEAN ARMY’ by June – And the UK is Invited to Join Even AFTER Brexit
  by NICOLE STINSON, https://www.express.co.uk/
  FRANCE will launch a deployable European military crisis force in June, French Defence Ministry sources have revealed, as they confirmed the army would work outside of existing European Union efforts.
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  Paris has been in touch with a dozen countries, including Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and Denmark, over the proposed military crisis force, and held a working group to outline the idea in March.
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  The idea aims to bring together European countries with a military capacity and political desire to collaborate on planning, carry out joint analyses of emerging crises and to react to them quickly. One insider said: ”It would not be within the European Union and would allow countries outside it, like Britain, to be part of it.”
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  A French military source added: ”The EU’s second-biggest army is leaving the union so this multilateral project makes sense when everything is being broken up.”
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  French President Emmanuel Macron broadly outlined the idea to have a rapid European intervention force by the end of the decade during a landmark speech on Europe last September. While some EU tactical interventional groups exist in principle, so far they have never been used.
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  The sources declined to name the countries that would be at a launch ceremony in Paris in June but added it did not mean nations could not join it a later stage. A second French defence source said: “It’s creating a smaller group of countries that have common analysis and procedures.” Meanwhile another insider also: “It would plug in the different military planning and operations centres.”
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