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The EU's Atalanta operation is commanded out of the UK, instead of an EU military HQ (Photo: Council of European Union)

UK to veto EU 'defence union'

British defence minister Michael Fallon has said the UK would veto the creation of EU military capabilities so long as it remained a member of the bloc.

Reacting to ideas on closer EU defence cooperation, discussed at the Bratislava summit on Friday (16 September), he told The Times, a British newspaper: “That is not going to happen”.

“We are full members of the EU and we will go on resisting any attempt to set up a rival ...

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