European Army
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| Equipment | 546 ships, 2,448 aircraft & 7,490 battle tanks |
| Manpower | |
| Active personnel | 1,823,000 (2014) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $226.73 billion (2016) |
| Percent of GDP | 1.42% (2014) |
The military of the European Union comprises the various cooperative structures that have been established between the armed forces of the member states, both intergovernmentally and within the institutional framework of the union; the Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) branch of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP).
The policy area of defence is traditionally the domain of nation states. The main military alliance in Europe remains the intergovernmental North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), which presently includes 22 EU member states together with five non-EU European countries; Iceland, Norway, Albania, Montenegro and Turkey as well as the United States and Canada. Although long impeded by concerns relating to national sovereignty and potential duplication of existing NATO structures, European defence integration has intensified in the beginning of the 21st century, bringing about the deployment of numerous CSDP operations and the establishment of a European Defence Agency (headed by the High Representative) as well as EU battlegroups. The latter have however never been engaged in operations, and other, recent initiatives of military integration, such as the European corps, gendarmerie force and air transport command are at present intergovernmental and outside the CFSP framework of the union.
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