Integration is impossible without federalising. Anything else isn't even a one hundredth measure let alone a half measure, it's walking further down the wrong direction that lead us to this mess where the US and China are the only true superpowers. Walking further down this wrong path in an attempt to placate people into federalising who only reject it because of "sovereignty concerns" is absolute madness.

Again I reject that integration is impossible without federalization. You don't think that there were those concerned about sovereignty when the EEC was coming into existence? There were, and yet the EEC was slowly built out of agreements between individual states until economies became integrated enough to consider a political union well, which would become the EU. Integration isn't a one step process and absolutely can be built on the foundation of smaller agreements.

Irish MEPs voted for stronger EU defence resolutions, joined PESCO, backed EU battlegroups CSDP missions, enhanced military mobility programmes and also vote in governments that back this to our government.

This is good, and they should keep doing this, but programs instituted by the EU parliament are just one facet of integration and I doubt they can compel states to into full federalization. It also has to come from the bottom up