The plan, which has influential support in Germany and France, proposes to set up a "Synchronised Armed Forces Europe", or Safe, as a first step towards a true European military force.
The move comes as France, a supporter of an EU army, prepares to rejoin Nato and to take over one of the Alliance's top military posts. General Charles de Gaulle withdrew French forces in 1966.
Geoffrey Van Orden MEP, the Conservative European defence spokesman, warned that British ministers are "in denial".
He said: "They are sleepwalking towards a European army and seem to have little awareness of what is going on."
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A step in the direction of total world unity? Or a fall towards division?
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