EU Defence Force: Do the operations of the European Defence Force have democratic legitimacy?

Below is the currently accepted coat of arms of the European Defence Force (informal title), which British troops in the near future will be forced to wear.

EU-Defence Force

You may not have heard of this European Union military project, but it has been up and running for over a decade now.

It is run from the EU’s ‘Common Security and Defence Policy’ in Brussels and involves policing and humanitarian roles usually carried out by the United Nations and NATO.

Note EU-Digest: another badly researched and fear mongering story by the British Eurosceptic Daily Mail

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