QUOTE (Rdg @ Mar 25 2019, 05:12 PM)
Largely based on misquotes, scare stories and outright lies - if anything us leaving makes that more likely (we have a veto and could veto any plan to remove our veto) but the story about an EU army came out of Trump threatening to withdraw some of the US support for Nato. That is one man I fear more than every EU politician and buerocrat combined and Brexit puts up firmly in his pocket
"STRASBOURG — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday endorsed the creation of an EU army, siding with French President Emmanuel Macron whose similar call in recent days drew a fusillade of wrathful tweets from U.S. President Donald Trump.
Merkel threw her support behind the idea in an address to the European Parliament, part of a series of leaders’ speeches on the future of Europe."
And,
"EMMANUEL Macron insisted the European Union must dial up plans for a "real European army" to ensure the member states are protected from external threats."
And,
"In November, French president Emmanuel Macron warned that Europeans cannot be protected without a “true, European army” to defend the EU from China, Russia and even the US."
All from different sources mind.