EU countries must stride up their military co-operation as they can't just depend on the US to guard them, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker says.
"Our concession to Nato can at no time in the future be utilized as a helpful justification to contend against more prominent European endeavors.
"We have no other decision than to protect our own advantages in the Center East, in environmental change, in our exchange assentions," he said in Prague.
US President Donald Trump has asked Nato partners to lift safeguard spending.
A month ago German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Europe could at no time in the future "totally depend" on the US and UK, taking after the race of President Trump and the activating of Brexit.
The UK and France are by a wide margin the most grounded military powers in the EU, so UK withdrawal conceivably debilitates Europe's aggregate military muscle.
Just five of Nato's 29 part states - the UK, US, Poland, Greece and Estonia - have met Nato's objective for every part to spend no less than 2% of their Gross domestic product (national yield) on protection.
Mr Juncker told the Prague guard and security meeting on Friday that "the route forward begins with ensuring that we spend what is required on our barrier".
Frosty War-time strains have reemerged since Russia added Crimea in 2014 and professional Russian dissidents cut out a separatist locale in eastern Ukraine.
Inefficient strategies
"The assurance of Europe can at no time in the future be outsourced," Mr Juncker said.
In any case, he focused on that "opposition between the EU and Nato is impossible".
He adulated the EU-Nato association in some key hotspots around the globe: Afghanistan, the Balkans and the Horn of Africa.
Be that as it may, he regretted wasteful aspects in European military spending and arranging, saying significantly more co-operation on guard ventures was required in the EU.
Mr Juncker said the EU was spending overall €27,000 (£24,000; $30,000) per fighter on gear and research, though the US was burning through €108,000.
"Together, we spend half as much as the Unified States, however that being said we just accomplish 15% of their effectiveness," he said.
"Ridiculously, there are more helicopter sorts than there are governments to get them! We should improve."
The UK has for quite some time been one of the most grounded voices in the EU against any moves towards framing an European armed force. The UK says the EU must not copy Nato's part as the primary mainstay of European barrier.
Be that as it may, Mr Trump's reactions of Nato have brought up issues about the US responsibility regarding shielding Europe.
European Protection Support
On Wednesday the European Commission declared the dispatch of an European Barrier Finance, concurred with national governments, to enable back to joint military tasks.
The EU will reserve spending assets to co-back undertakings that EU part states need to grow together.
Under the arrangement, €500m will be made accessible every year after 2020 for joint military research, and another €1bn every year for joint venture and buys of military hardware, for example, automatons and helicopters.
The EU has framed some joint battlegroups, proposed as a quick response drive, however they have never been tried in battle.
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