Organisation is actually pretty good at the battalion level, there’s plenty of EU Battlegroups integrating neighbouring armies on a deep level – or at least making them acquainted with each other. Gotta know the MRE exchange rates. And that’s not counting stuff that you mentioned, like the Dutch land army being rolled into German C&C or the German/French brigade.

What’s lacking are strategic C&C capabilities on the EU level: There’s just too few of them, there should be more cooperation on that level (member states have those kinds of capabilities) which is exactly what the “EU army” thing is about, operationally. Although it has to be said that push come to shove, with so many EU members in NATO, everyone would just re-assign everything NATO to the EU should the NATO fall flat. Armies have scrambled into fighting stances from worse positions.

Macron could lead Europe, yes, but first he has to manage to lead France.

Das wird als Begehren nicht durchkommen zu wenig Interesse.

Was gute Aussicht hätte wäre mal bei solchen Stellen wie Dataport anzufragen, Firmen/Behörden die Staats-IT machen und eh schon auf dem FLOSS-Zug sitzen, was die denn so brauchen und das dann zumindest in Grundzügen zu basteln bis es für die kollektiv Sinn macht es zu übernehmen.

Braucht halt auch wirklich kein Gesetz um das zu machen.

I mean sure but they’re commonly referred to in US politics as left, and also consider themselves to be on the left.

Not my fault y’all’s overton window is fucked.

Nicht unbedingt. Erstmal müsste er die verlieren, was nicht unbedingt gegeben ist wenn er die Vertrauensfrage nicht mit einer Sachfrage verbindet (oder es dafür eine Mehrheit gibt), und wenn er sie verliert gibt’s immer noch die Möglichkeit dass der Bundestag einen anderen Kanzler wählt.

Das ganze wird sehr von der CDU abhängen.

The draft is actually harsher for women than for men: Men can refuse service at arms, women can’t refuse medical service.

Back then, Germany was barely warming up to the idea of a EU military. Now it seems to be a done deal, the European motor is going to churn and Poland seems to want to be part of it.

Before you judge them to be too bought-in how about starting to give a damn about their issues.

Tax break handouts are a slap in the face of the working poor: What good is a tax break when you don’t earn enough to pay taxes, or live a dignified life, in the first place?

Everyone but Hungary and Serbia? Though Serbia is also fickle because Russia’s annexation of the people’s republics legitimises Kosovo’s independence – if you can gain statehood unilaterally with a BS referendum, you can definitely do it with a proper one. Hungary will only last as long as Orban, and he seems to be past his prime.

Or where you somehow under the impression that Europe is standing by idly while the US is doing all the work? They’re providing surplus military equipment from their to-be-scrapped pile, that’s pretty much it.

You don’t know much about Europe do you, this was the final nail in the coffin of Atlanticism.