Several countries in the EU aim for neutrality. A common front on defense issues is and will always will be difficult to pull of because of that. Additionally s

Several countries in the EU aim for neutrality. A common front on defense issues is and will always will be difficult to pull of because of that. Additionally some countries have very high barriers for military interventions. Every time the German military does anything outside of German territory they're on questionable ground constitutionally. You either have the EU always be neutral or it will be split on matters of defense. Neither is necessarily bad.