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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9300
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/esdp/nato

Poland proposes setting up European army linked to NATO

Brussels, 06/11/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an interview to the Financial Times, the president of Poland, Lech Kaczynski, explained that his country wants a European Union army to be set up consisting of 100,000 men and linked to NATO. Kaczynski stated, “At the moment we have the situation where the EU needs about 8,000 troops in Lebanon and there is a problem where to find them”. He also said that, “Forces are needed which would not replace the armies of individual states, but which...

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