She said that the US shift away from Europe is a “long term” process and the bloc needs to urgently adapt She said that the US shift away from Europe is a “long term” process and the bloc needs to urgently adapt “Those who say that we need a European army … maybe those people haven’t really thought this through practically because, having been a prime minister, you know that you have one army, you have one defence budget. So if you are already part of Nato, … you can’t … create a separate army,