Long viewed as unrealistic, ideas like setting up a permanent headquarters for the supervision of all the European Union’s military operations or giving the EU its own military capabilities are now seen as doable in the near future by the president of the European Commission, Jean-Claude Juncker, as he explained on Wednesday 14 September in his state of the Union address.
At the European Parliament in Strasbourg, Juncker identified lack of cooperation among the member states as the main...