Protesters gather to demonstrate against the EU referendum result outside the Houses of Parliament on June 28, 2016 in London. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Foreign ministers from France and Germany presented the radical proposals to do away with individual member states’ armies, criminal law systems and central banks, The Sun reports.

The blueprint suggests the 27 states in the bloc would also lose what is left of their powers to control their own borders, including the procedure for admitting and relocating refugees, according to reports by Polish media.

Instead all powers would be transferred to Brussels under the controversial plans.

In a foreword to the nine-page report seen by the Daily Express, German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault said: “Our countries share a common destiny and a common set of values … that give rise to an even closer union between our citizens.

“We will therefore strive for a political union in Europe and invite the next Europeans to participate in this venture.”

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Mr Ayrault described the Franco-German proposal as a “contribution”, adding that there would be “others”.

“Even if, of course, we have differences, divergent views, everyone is aware that the common good of Europe must be preserved,” he told reporters in Prague.

Eastern EU states on Monday voiced doubts about the proposal.

The plans have been branded an “ultimatum” designed to create a European “superstate dominated by large nations” by Polish state broadcaster TVP.

Poland’s foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski said: “This is not a good solution, of course, because from the time the EU was invented a lot has changed.

“The mood in European societies is different. Europe and our voters do not want to give the union over into the hands of technocrats.”

Poland had always been an ally of the UK’s when it came to fighting creeping federalism in the EU.

“It doesn’t make sense to talk about speedy or headlong integration, which would be a silly reply to what happened in Britain,” Czech Foreign Minister Lubormir Zaoralek told AFP in Prague.

“It turned out that the public is lagging behind these [integration] processes — these are processes that have not been explained to the public or defended before them.”

Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski. Picture: Gali Tibbon/AFPSource:AFP

Mr Zaoralek added that the four eastern members had reservations about the proposed common security policy.

Eastern members have become increasingly jittery on security issues since Moscow used so-called “hybrid warfare”, or undeclared covert tactics — to annex the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

The spectre of an EU army was raised by Brexiteers as a reason to quit the EU. In the wake of a vote for Brexit, EU chiefs have been more brazen about their desire to form an EU army.

In a document titled ‘EU Global Strategy on Foreign and Security Policy’, Europe’s chief diplomat said the Brussels bloc must be able to “repel, to respond and to protect”.

While the paper stops short of explicitly calling for an EU army, it does suggest its members should work more closely on defence matters.

The paper states: “We, as Europeans, need to take on a greater responsibility for our own security.

“We need to be ready and able to repel, respond and to protect ourselves against aggression, provocations and destabilisation.”

Nigel Farage and Jean-Claude Juncker. Picture: John Thys/AFPSource:AFP

Possible areas of co-operation include the deployment of unmanned aircraft, aerial refuelling services, satellite communication and cyber resistance and defence.

The head of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs, Elmar Brok, has also argued for “more co-operation in the European defence policy”.

He said: “We need a common [military] headquarters and a coalition [of EU countries] acting in accordance with the permanent structural co-operation of the EU Treaty. From such a group an EU army could eventually emerge.”

On Tuesday, leading Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage was booed and heckled in a raucous special session of the European Parliament as he accused the EU of imposing a superstate on its citizens and predicted other countries would leave the bloc like Britain.

“What I would like to see is a grown-up and sensible attitude to how we negotiate a different relationship,” he said.

“I know that virtually none of you have ever done a proper job in your lives or worked in business or worked in trade or ever created a job.”

This article originally appeared on The Sun and was reproduced with permission.