[Stingray51]

It does not sound as if the EU is planning on major increases in military spending. So this sounds like it won’t amount to much more than buying some new patches and creating a new headquarters that will undoubtedly be a nice place for the assigned staffers to live.

[Olog-hai]

Have a look at their treaties. Especially the new clauses in the Treaty of Lisbon about “enhanced cooperation”. They have had the plans in place for a unified military for a very long time, and creating the centralized command would be the keystone for such a unification.