News Analysis
Before he clashed with President Donald Trump at the White House on Feb. 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for the creation of a European armed force.
“I really believe that [the] time has come. The armed forces of Europe must be created,” Zelenskyy told world leaders at the Munich Security Conference on Feb. 15.
In January 2024, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani told La Stampa newspaper he wanted to see an EU army, but there has been little appetite for it until now.
Could the European Union—perhaps with the addition of Britain, which left the bloc in 2021—end up creating its own army, and would it mean NATO withering on the vine?…