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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9072

22 November 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/defence
EU completes timetable for battlegroups

Brussels, 21/11/2005 (Agence Europe) - EU Member State defence ministers have noted the formation of two new joint forces battlegroups. The first, for the second half of 2007, is made up of Greek, Romanian, Bulgarian and Cypriot troops and will allow the EU to meet its aim to have, from 1 January 2007, a total operational capacity allowing it to undertake two rapid reaction operations by deploying forces of the size of a battlegroup, including the ability to launch two operations of this...

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