December 15, 2011: Poland has agreed to be the tenth nation to contribute troops, starting in 2016, to Eurocorps, a force of 60,000 troops that handles peacekeeping and other military operations for the European Union. The other contributors are Belgium (since 1993), France (1992), Germany (1992), Luxembourg (1996), Spain (1994), Austria (2002), Greece (2003), Italy (2009) and Turkey (2003). Eurocorps was organized in the early 1990s and became available for duty in 1995. Eurocorps troops have served as peacekeepers in the Balkans and Afghanistan.
The core unit of the Eurocorps is he Franco-German brigade, which was set up at the end of the Cold War, in 1987, as a symbol of growing French-German unity, and dedication to mutual defense. The Franco-German brigade (with 6,000 troops) was always one of the key components of Eurocorps. Until last year, none of the German units were ever based in France. French units were often based in Germany, which was not unique. At the end of World War II in 1945, French units occupied part of Germany until the 1955. Last year, for the first time since World War II (and over four years of German occupation), a German combat unit was stationed in France. This was the German 291st Infantry Battalion, which is part of the Franco-German Brigade that moved into a base in eastern France (...)
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