Eurocorps
Eurocorps in Europe
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Description of Eurocorps
The Concise Publication of the European Union describes eurocorps in the following terms: [1] A joint initiative of President François Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the Eurocorps was inaugurated in 1993, based on a proposed 35,000-strong Franco-German force (see more in this European publication). It became operational in 1995 with over 50,000 French, German, Belgian, Luxembourg and Spanish troops, Belgium having committed nearly half of its 45,000-strong army to the corps. Membership is open to all the WEU signatories, some of which, including The Netherlands, Italy and Poland(a WEU associate), have signalled their interest. Forces allocated to the Eurocorps are also assigned to NATO, on which the corps would be reliant for support services in a sustained emergency. The role envisaged for the Eurocorps is that of peacekeeping and crisis management, with the WEUproviding the political framework - a format not perhaps ideally suited to fast-moving operational conditions. In 1999, Britain offered logistical support to the Eurocorps, to the alarm of the USA, which feared that an embryonic European army was in the making, rather than a burden-sharing force under NATO's umbrella. (See also Common Foreign and Security Policy and WEU.)
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Based on the book "A Concise Publication of the European Union from Aachen to Zollverein", by Rodney Leach (Profile Books; London)
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