EU summit has agreed closer steps to European Army, according to the Mail

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David Cameron was accused yesterday of signing Britain up to a blueprint for a Euro Army.
European leaders agreed plans for greater defence co-operation at a summit in Brussels that will force Britain to consult fellow EU nations over defence planning, with defence chiefs having to co-ordinate capabilities and procurement.
The plans appear to duplicate the role of the Nato alliance, which Tories have traditionally credited with sole responsibility for European defence.
The communique issued at the end of the summit also featured calls for a co-ordinated policy to boost development of defence technology across Europe.
In language that Eurosceptics last night denounced as a power grab, the document calls for ‘a more systematic and longer term European defence co-operation’, including through ‘pooling and sharing of military capabilities’.
And it demands that EU countries should be ‘systematically considering co-operation from the outset in national defence planning’.
A review will be conducted by Britain’s commissioner in Brussels, Labour peer Baroness Ashton, who will report by September, and EU leaders will agree plans at a summit in December 2013.
Downing Street insisted the plans are welcome since they will encourage smaller countries to make more useful defence contributions at a time when budgets are tight.
Officials stressed that the UK already co-operates closely with France, Europe’s other main military power.

A senior source said: ‘We are very relaxed about this. Nato will still have primacy.’
But Eurosceptics demanded reassurances that the plans would not undermine the Atlantic alliance. Peter Bone, Tory MP for Wellingborough, said: ‘The Conservative Party position has always been that Nato is the bedrock of the defence of Europe.
‘The idea of a European defence force is something that we’ve absolutely been against. Even if this is only a first step, it is worrying.
‘Slice by slice they [the EU] will expand their influence and what begins as co-operation will end up as a Euro Army.’
Douglas Carswell, MP for Clacton, said: ‘If anyone seriously believes that it is in our national interest to hand over our defence to the people running the euro, they need their head examined.’