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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10040

15 December 2009
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/defence

14/12/2009 (Agence Europe) - At the eighth Berliner Sicherheitskonferenz, the German Christian Democrat Hans-Gert Pöttering proposed the creation within the European Parliament of a bureau for a European ombudsman for the Armed Forces, based on removal of the German "Wehrbeauftragte". "This will give the approximately 2 million European soldiers of the Member States of the European Union a contact point, not only regarding the duties, rights and rules of engagement, but also regarding their...

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