I
was there on a visit with the defence sub-committee when, for the first time, a British general, bearing on his sleeve the European emb
lem with its stars, introduced himself to me as a European soldi
er, I realised that something had happened here that would reverberate throughout history; you, Mr Schmit, may mention ‘European troops’ or the ‘forces of the European Union’, only in passing, but there is no doubt that this is a development with histori
...[+++]c significance.