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SHOULD BRITISH TROOPS BE MERGED INTO AN EU ARMY?

Thursday July 3,2008


THE prospect of British troops fighting in a Euro Army came a step closer yesterday as Foreign Secretary David Miliband threw his weight behind a French ­military blueprint.


He backed French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s scheme to beef up the European Union’s military structure.

His support means British ­soldiers could be handed to the EU and sent into action by EU generals.

Mr Miliband warned that without a Euro-force, the EU would always have to wait “impotently” for America to intervene in a crisis.

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SHOULD BRITISH TROOPS BE MERGED?

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