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The European Union member-states co-operate militarily in various ways. Many member states are also members of NATO , and there is a defence organisation called the Western European Union . However, the memberships of the EU, WEU and the NATO European countries are not the same. Indeed, some EU member states are constitutionally committed to remain neutral on defence issues. This article uses the word Military in its U.S. English sense, i.e., of armed forces. One of the issues that the now defunct European Constitution was going to address would have closed down the WEU as a separate organisation and have the EU institutions take on the WEUs defence role. The EU currently has a limited mandate over defence issues, with a role to explore the issue of European defence agreed to in the Amsterdam Treaty , as well as oversight of the European Rapid Reaction Force . However, some EU states may and do make multilateral agreements about defence issues outside of the EU structures. In that sense, therefore, there is no "military of the European Union". In 2004 EU countries took over leadership of the mission in Bosnia And Herzegovina from NATO - see EUFOR - which was given the branding of an EU initiative as the EU sponsored the force to further the force's image of legitimacy. See also the European Security And Defence Policy . MILITARY OF MEMBER STATES The individual member states of the EU have separate armed forces:
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