re: #172 Alephnaught

Actually, there’s been quite a lot of talk about an independent EU defence policy for some time, but it was always in the background, assumed to be a part of political union within the EU following economic union. Obviously the way Trump’s been going on, progress on this might accelerate.

Angela already hinted at that as early as last year. And these are not people to just shoot off their mouths and then send their underlings scrambling to come up with something concrete, I am sure she would not have even mentioned it unless they had planning studies at least well underway.