Juncker has been prattling on about a European army for years and it's getting no closer. Eurosceptics here have been prattling on about a United States of Europe for decades without actually explaining how the EU, with its highly-disparate states and cultures, each with its own strong sense of nationalism, not to speak of all the multiple languages and currencies, is ever going to become an across-the-pond copy of the US. It's one man's vision, there are plenty of powerful naysayers in the EU and, deep down, even you diehard brexiteers know that you will see neither in our lifetimes. Of course he wants more harmony in a frequently-turbulent EU. That's his job. But jumping on one man's very unoriginal speech in order to say there, told you so, we wuz right all along...very valiant of you. But I absolutely promise you that you won't be saying that in two years' time. If I'm wrong I'll eat Paddy Pantsdown's hat and appear on Match Of The Day in my underpants (if I can find any).