Merkel BACKS Macron: German Leader Demands EU ARMY Risking Further Anger from Trump

• Merkel BACKS Macron: German Leader Demands EU ARMY Risking Further Anger from Trump
  by ALICE SCARSI, https://www.express.co.uk/
  ANGELA Merkel has depicted the “future of Europe” in her keynote speech to the European Parliament plenary session, demanding member states step up development of the EU Army.
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  In a wide-ranging speech she also urged EU state members who are not abiding to EU rules to “share the responsibility” brought by immigration and the crises which hit the bloc in the past months. But if was her comments on the armed force which drew the biggest response. It led to jeering from some MEPs and comes minutes after Donald Trump attacked Emmanuel Macron for calling for an EU Army last week. Ms Merkel said: “Jean Claude Juncker some years ago said a common European Army would show the world there will never again be a war in Europe.
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  “I’m not saying anything about Nato of course not. We can be a good supplement to Nato. “It would be a lot easier to cooperate if we have more than 160 weapons systems and the US only has 50 or 60. We realise that all the different instances have training and education. If we could pull this together we can work together with Nato.”
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