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France is a part of NATO, but its military is not a part of the NATO military, and it has no military obligations whatsoever. This unique status among NATO members results from the repeated surrender of France to whatever enemy they should find.

Hence, France is in NATO, but its nukes--unlike our nukes and the British nukes--are not in NATO.

Hey, didn't France violate the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty when they gave Saddam Hussein nuclear weapons? Oh, I forgot, by convention of international law, as interpreted by the French, France is the conscience and the essence of the world, and France can do no wrong.

If the EU had its own army, they almost certainly would exclude the treacherous surrender monkeys--just like NATO. But I have no idea what an EU military would be. It almost certainly would be weak and waffling, and surrender insomuch as it is French.