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Which is a huge misunderstanding of how Europe works. It's not federal like the US and would require all countries to agree to a centralised army. Many countries are rightly concerned about the concept and what it would mean for their own sovereign armed forces so won't approve the idea.
Or it is federal in the same way the Holy Roman Empire was.
And the concern that European politicians seem to have is that an EU army would require the EU to define military policy rather than just follow US military policy. It isn't that the EU couldn't be made to gain greater competencies in military and diplomatic areas, it is that the various EU nations are happier letting the US define that instead.