EU Army set to be agreed TODAY – and BRITAIN will foot the 420m-a-year bill

My best guess is Russia

LTC Greg Henning - It just seems like a redundancy and if I'm not mistaken the EU officials aren't elected so it's kind of an odd arrangement, unless I'm missing something.

CSM Richard StCyr This is what I found on your question:
On 20 February 2009 the European Parliament voted in favor of the creation of Synchronized Armed Forces Europe (SAFE) as a first step towards a true European military force. SAFE will be directed by an EU directorate, with its own training standards and operational doctrine. There are also plans to create an EU "Council of Defense Ministers" and "a European statute for soldiers within the framework of Safe governing training standards, operational doctrine and freedom of operational action". EU forces have been deployed on peacekeeping missions from middle and northern Africa to Western Balkans and western Asia. EU military operations are supported by a number of bodies, including the European Defense Agency, European Union Satellite Center and the European Union Military Staff. In an EU consisting of 28 members, substantial security and defense co-operation is increasingly relying on great power co-operation.

LTC Greg Henning - Thanks sir, interesting developments.