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	The Robert Schuman Foundation Letter
		The European Union refers to recent developments in the South Ossetian zone of conflict in Georgia and to the Resolution of the Georgian Parliament on Peacekeeping Forces Stationed in the Conflict Zones, which was adopted on 18th July 2006.
		European Justice and Home Affairs Ministers exchanged views on Monday 24th July with regard to the Commission's communications on the reveiw of The Hague Programme, the overall approach of migration and the management of migratory flow.
		The European Commission considers that Germany is on track to correct its excessive deficit by 2007 at the latest, as requested by the Council in March 2006, provided it fully implements the 2006 and 2007 budgets.
	www.robert-schuman.org /lettre/lettrean267.htm (3441 words)

	Signature of Declaration of Intent for a European Gendarmerie Force - Europainformationen des EUD Internet Online Teams ...
		The European Gendarmerie Force is a police force with military status.
		Although the EGF can conduct tasks throughout the spectrum of police missions, it is excellently suited to deployment during or immediately after a military operation for maintaining public order and safety and in situations where local police forces are not (sufficiently) deployable.
		The initiative for establishing the EGF was taken in 2003 by the Minister of Defence of France, Mrs Alliot-Marie.
	www.europa-web.de /europa/03euinf/10counc/egfdecl.htm (275 words)

	Real Instituto Elcano
		As regards the missions on which the force is to be deployed, there was unanimity from the start that the EGF should be capable of covering all police missions that could arise in a conflict area, including high-risk scenarios, the initial stages of military intervention and situations that are already stabilised.
		In summary, the main object of the EGF is to take advantage of the special characteristics of Europe’s paramilitary police forces —such as the means at their disposal, their training and discipline—, which are far superior to those of all other existing police forces.
		It is clear that although the EGF is not embedded in current European Union institutions, the countries that form the Force have the clear intention of making it available, as specified in the aforementioned declaration of intentions.
	www.realinstitutoelcano.org /analisis/735.asp (1823 words)

	The role of the European Gendarmerie Force (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Furthermore, on the basis of the force status agreement negotiated with the Bosnian authorities and adopted for the EU Police Mission, a framework document that can be used for future EU operations, in particular those involving the Europe Gendarmerie Force (EGF), can now be drawn up.
		The development of police and gendarmerie capabilities for crisis-management operations began when the Feira Council decided in June 2000 that the EU should acquire the necessary machinery and doctrines to deal with that new aspect of crisis management.
		Furthermore, the EGF Permanent HQ will facilitate the deployment and initial conduct of subsequent operations by providing an initial core for the Force HQ on a temporary basis, until such time as the Force HQ is completely up and running.
	www.assembly-weu.org /en/documents/sessions_ordinaires/rpt/2006/1928.html (7108 words)

	New EU Police Could be Deployed This Year \| Europe \| Deutsche Welle \| 25.01.2006
		Europe's new police force could be in action in trouble spots worldwide as early as this year, France's defence minister said this week during its inauguration by ministers from the five participating EU countries.
		The new force "will have various opportunities to deploy in 2006, whether it will be in the Balkans or other regions of the world," she told journalists.
		The force was established in September 2004 in the Dutch town of Noorwijk to include the five EU states which maintain paramilitary police forces.
	www.dw-world.de /popups/popup_printcontent/0,,1868995,00.html (470 words)

	European Rapid Reaction Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Union Rapid Reaction Force is a transnational military force managed by the European Union itself rather than any of its member states.
		Despite being at the orders of the EU, the ERRF would contain national forces who could only obey 'European' orders through explicit consent of 'national' military commanders, quite in the same way as the "double command" of the UNPROFOR.
		However, the scale of such operations would be seriously limited by the lacking logistical and transportation cababilities, both strategic and tactical, of the armed forces of the european nations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Rapid_Reaction_Force (1595 words)

	Statewatch News Online: European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) to be launched in Italy on 19 January
		European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) to be launched in Italy on 19 January
		The EGF involves the French Gendarmerie, the Italian Carabinieri, the Portuguese Guardia Nacional Republicana, the Dutch Royal Marechausee and the Spanish Civil Guard.
		Para-military police are by their very name and nature trained to use force beyond that normally available to police forces and require greater not less oversight.
	www.statewatch.org /news/2006/jan/03eu-gendarmarie.htm (993 words)

	The Robert Schuman Foundation Letter
		The European funds dedicated to SME's in the area of agriculture are to finance the launch of a pilot project in the Ukraine for the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and cereals.
		Five European Ministers - Michèle Alliot-Marie (France), Antonio Martino (Italy), Luis Amado (Portugal), Henk Kamp (the Netherlands), Jose Antonio Alonso (Spain) - and the High Representative of the EU for the Foreign Policy, Javier Solana, inaugurated on Monday 23rd January the permanent HQ of the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) based in Vicenza (Italy).
		The European Charter for Local Autonomy originated in the work undertaken by the Permanent Conference of Local and Regional Authorities of Europe; it comprises representatives of territorial communities from Member States which was joined in 1994 by the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities.
	www.robert-schuman.org /lettre/lettrean241.htm (3399 words)

	European Gendarmerie Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The European Gendarmerie Force or EGF was launched by an agreement between five members of the European Union, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands.
		The EGF is based in Vicenza, in northeastern Italy, and has a core of 800-900 members ready to deploy within 30 days.
		On 23 January 2006, the EGF was officially inaugurated during a military ceremony in the Gen. Chinotto barracks in Vicenza.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/European_Gendarmerie_Force (271 words)

	European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On July 20, 2006 the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) will be declared fully operational at a meeting of the high-level interministerial committee (CIMIN) which will be held in Madrid.
		Established on September 17, 2004 by a declaration of intent of ministers from the five founding countries, the EGF grew out of a French initiative.
		The EGF aims to fill the operational gap seen in crisis-management operations between the time armed forces enter a theater of operations and the time the police forces can perform normally.
	www.diplomatie.gouv.fr /en/article-imprim.php3?id_article=5322 (260 words)

	Statewatch News Online: EU: Five countries establish a European paramilitary police force
		On 17 September 2004, the establishment of a European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) by five EU member states (France, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Spain) under a French proposal from 2003 was agreed in the Dutch town of Noordwick, with the signing of an agreement by the five countries' defence ministers.
		The EGF headquarters will become operative next year in the north-eastern Italian town of Vicenza, and it will be the European gendarmerie's only permanent structure.
		The EGF is will be part of the EU's "non-military crisis management" structure agreed after the Nice Summit which presumed a para-military force drawn from all member states.
	www.statewatch.org /news/2004/sep/06para-military.htm (821 words)

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		European Union leaders argue the world should not be dependent on one satellite navigation service, which could be switched off by the US military in a crisis.
		The French Gendarmerie general GÃ©rard Deanaz was appointed first commander of EUROGENDFOR at the close of the meeting of the EGF's political-military committee on January 21st, 2005.
		As a transition tool for crisis handling, the EGF will be fit to carry out all its missions, under military command, in the wake of a power device in a high intensity conflict, or under civilian authority for the establishment of a democratic regime.
	www.declarepeace.org.uk /captain/murder_inc/site/smoke.html (11038 words)

	International Institute for Strategic Studies - Michèle Alliot-Marie Speech
		European companies are operating in as varied fields as telecommunications, electronics, energy or finance.
		Today, the European troika is expecting the Iranian authorities to honour their commitment not to develop their nuclear installations with a military purpose.
		I do believe that it is high time for the European countries and the Gulf neighbouring countries to reinforce their cooperation in this field, in order to contribute together to the stability of this area which is vital for the world.
	www.iiss.org /index.asp?pgid=8243 (1329 words)

	Center for Strategic Decision Research, Peter Struck, Michele Alliot-Marie, General George Joulwan, SACEUR, General ...
		The 1500-man tactical groups in which 25 nations of the European Union are participating, along with the European Gendarmerie Force, the civil-military cell, the European Security and Defense College, and the EU military operations are also major additional steps.
		NATO Allies and European Union members face common challenges: a terrorist threat that is both enduring and becoming internationalized and an instability that is spreading to many parts of the world.
		Europeans need to work together better in order to spend their resources optimally and pool their research and know-how in the face of international competition.
	www.csdr.org /2005book/alliotmarie.htm (1699 words)

	ISN Security Watch - EU launches gendarmerie force
		According to the agreement signed by five EU governments in Noordwijk in the Netherlands in September 2004, the 2,300-strong EGF force is to be headquartered in Vicenza and will staff some 30 permanent officers from the five EU nations.
		The costs of the EGF are to be paid by the five participating countries directly, rather from the EU budget.
		Officials said the first EGF mission would be decided by the end of this year or early next year, but they refused to speculate on where the deployment might be.
	www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?id=14519 (583 words)

	Embassy of France in the US - European Defense
		In the margins of the European Defence Ministers' meeting in The Netherlands, the French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese ministers have created, on paper of course for the time being, a European Gendarmerie Force.
		The gendarmerie is a police force with a military status whose skill and training enable it to operate in a whole range of situations, i.e.
		THE MINISTER — We're starting off with the idea of having a force of 800 men which would be ready to operate from the beginning of 2005 with a permanent headquarters of around thirty or forty staff.
	www.info-france-usa.org /news/statmnts/2004/mam_europe1_091904.asp (369 words)

	NATO Response Force; EuroCorps; European Rapid Reaction; EDI; Gendarmerie
		The leading edge of that transformation is the NATO Response Force, a force of some 15,000 to 20,000 ground troops as well as air and naval components that is being formed to move a combat brigade quickly to world hot spots.
		As the forces rotate, the NRF will include approximately 25,000 well-trained, well-validated soldiers from NATO nations, another 25,000 soldiers will be preparing for the next standby period and 25,000 soldiers will just have finished their standby period.
		Under the plan, the "Europe Aid" force would have a command centre in Brussels and a training centre to prepare professionals employed by member states who would be sent to disaster areas under both their own national flag and the EU's flag.
	users.cybertime.net /~ajgood/forces2.html (5273 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| EU launches crisis police force
		Five European Union defence ministers have signed an agreement to launch a joint 3,000-strong gendarmerie force to be deployed to hotspots worldwide.
		The BBC's European news editor, Bill Hayton, says that since the slaughter in Bosnia in the early 1990s the EU has envisaged creating a robust intervention force - something between the neutrality of traditional UN peacekeeping and Nato's cruise missiles.
		The plan is for the new gendarmerie to be sent to places where law and order has deteriorated but not completely broken down, or where a conflict has subsided and heavily-armed troops are no longer needed, the BBC analyst says.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/3665172.stm (347 words)

	SPECTREZINE weblog » Blog Archive » EU prepares for resistance
		On 19 January the EU Gendarmerie Force (EGF) involving para-military police forces from Italy, Spain, France, Holland and Portugal will be launched in Vicenza, Italy, where, in an interesting coincidence, a major US military base can also be found.
		A paramilitary style force on the Italian model was favoured because, in the words of a police officer speaking at a meeting on the subject in Paris in January, 2000 “Paramilitary police forces offer, above all else, the capability for the restoration of public order where the absence of any state legitimacy reigns.
		In a week in which the European Parliament’s Strasbourg HQ has seen vigorous protests by dockers whose livelihoods are threatened by the EU’s extremist plans to privatise, deregulate and liberalise everything and anything, spectrezine is offering no prizes for guessing what will be the EGF’s primary purpose.
	www.spectrezine.org /weblog/?p=164 (506 words)

	Moldova Azi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Altering the external conditions that sustain Transnistria will require actions at the European level, continued EU dialogue with the United States and a coherent EU policy on Russia and Ukraine, particularly on the border question, as well as on the existing conflict resolution mechanisms and the withdrawal of Russian troops.
		At the European level, it is important to work for greater coordination on Transnistria on the part of EU member states.
		First, in the context of Ukraine's efforts to associate itself with the CFSP, greater realignment of Ukraine with the EU policy on Transnistria should be sought, including with regard to the sanctions and the travel ban against the Transnistrian leadership.
	www.azi.md /investigation?ID=37219 (3932 words)

	E U R O M I L (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Headquarter of the European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENFOR) has been officially opened on 23 January 2005 in presence of the five ministers for defence/interior for Spain, France, Italy, The Netherlands and Portugal.
		The European Gendarmerie Force is a multinational Gendarmerie Corps, which aims at reinforcing international crisis management capacities in sensitive areas.
		It is composed of the Gendarmerie Nationale, the Carabinieri, the Koninklijke Marechaussee, the Guarda Nacional Republicana and the Guarda Civil.
	www.euromil.org /newsitem.asp?newsid=117 (122 words)

	EU to launch force for trouble spots -DAWN - International; 17 September, 2004
		The new force, dubbed the "European gendarmerie", is not intended for conflict zones such as Iraq, but for countries recovering from war such as Bosnia, where the EU will take over peacekeeping from NATO in December.
		Dutch Minister Henk Kamp said the force, with headquarters in Italy, should be functioning by 2005 but doubted whether it would be ready for actual missions next year.
		Moreover with many European countries struggling to get their overall budget deficits lower, there is little prospect of a large boost to defence spending any time soon.
	www.dawn.com /2004/09/17/int11.htm (425 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| Euro military police force set up
		The European Gendarmerie will be made up of military police from five EU countries and will be available for peacekeeping missions worldwide.
		The police will come from the paramilitary forces of France, Italy, Spain, Portugal and the Netherlands, though, in time, other EU countries will be invited to lend support.
		The defence ministers of the countries involved, who were at the inauguration on Monday, insist the men of the gendarmerie have their own particular expertise and will be there to complement, not rival, Nato and UN operations.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/europe/4638554.stm (270 words)

	Analysis: EU Flexes Its Military Muscles
		The armed forces of Germany, France, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg are also pooled together in Eurocorps, the Strasbourg-based body that currently runs the international peacekeeping effort in Afghanistan.
		With such a plethora of forces capable of stepping in to war zones - or potential war zones - at short notice, some critics believe there is a serious risk of rivalry, duplication and crossed communications.
		Britain and France, the EU countries with the largest armed forces, kick-started moves to boost the bloc's military clout at a summit in 1998.
	www.spacedaily.com /news/milspace-04ze.html (1097 words)

	Eurocorps-Foreign Legion concept
		The Eurocorps-Foreign Legion concept follows the conciliatory approach between the European, transatlantic and neutral traditions and vocations among twenty-five European Union Member-States in the evolution of a coherent and credible European Union defence identity.
		The raising of a Single European Regiment would enable the formal representation of the twenty-five European Union Member-States in the sum of its officer ranks and the representation of the twenty-five nationalities in the sum of its NCO ranks.
		Update: the establishment of the European Gendarmerie Force by France, Holland, Italy, Spain and Portugal on 23st January 2006.
	paginas.pavconhecimento.pt /pessoais/dw/Mario_Zanatti/INDEX2.HTM (433 words)

	Platter: European Gendarmerie Force is proof that the ESDP is working
		URL: www.eu2006.at / Presidency of the Council 2006 / News / Press Releases / January / Platter: European Gendarmerie Force is proof that the ESDP is working /
		"The European Gendarmerie Force is making an important contribution to the European Security and Defence Policy”, EU Council President Günther Platter, Austria’s Defence Minister, said today, Monday, at the opening of the headquarters of the European Gendarmerie Force in Vicenza, Italy.
		The decision to set up the European Gendarmerie Force was taken in Noordwijk/Netherlands in 2004.
	eu2006.at /en/News/Press_Releases/January/2301PlatterGendarmerie.html (229 words)

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