Cooperative military operations will be great for shoring up European unity and validating more integration in due course. The UK being out of the picture shoul

Cooperative military operations will be great for shoring up European unity and validating more integration in due course. The UK being out of the picture should help (as does the existential threat that Brexit has painted) but the system of half-measures too well suits Germany to make it easy. This has all been true with a fiscal union too.