31. Another is a French-German proposal to absorb the Western European Union , the EU's largely limp military arm. 32. Such a collective-security organization would be based on the Western European Union , one of the EU's predecessors. 33. Rifkind added of the idea to fold the Western European Union , the EU's defense arm, into the union. 34. France is not part of NATO's military structure but has been promoting development of the Western European Union . 35. He served on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union and the Council of Europe from 1963. 36. Bonn and Paris want to fold the Western European Union , the EU's embryonic defense arm, fully into the EU. 37. That conference focused on the subject of integrating the European Union with its defense organization, the Western European Union . 38. An agreement expanded the Brussels Treaty of 1948 to include West Germany and Italy, creating the Western European Union . 39. He said a foreign force should not be provided by NATO or the Western European Union , another security group. 40. In the meeting hall Tuesday, talk was about security and the future of the Western European Union military alliance.
