British Prime Minister David Cameron on Thursday quashed the idea the European Union should have its own armed forces, laying down a marker at an EU summit dedicated to boosting defence cooperation.
"It makes sense for nation states to cooperate over matters of defence to keep us all safer... but it is not right for the EU to have capabilities, armies, air forces and the rest of it," Cameron said as he arrived for the two-day meeting.
"We have to get that demarcation correct, between cooperation which is right, but EU capabilities which is wrong," he said as other EU leaders highlighted the need to increase defence cooperation to make stretched budgets go further." he said.
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