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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9692

28 June 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/esdp
EU activates one of its five operations headquarters

Brussels, 27/06/2008 (Agence Europe) - During the MILEX '08 exercise organised from 18-27 June in Rome, the EU activated one of its five operations headquarters (OHQ). The OHQ was recognised as able to command the autonomous military operations of the EU of up to 40,000 deployed on external theatres of operations. At present, the EU has two possibilities for ensuring autonomous command - i.e. outside the framework of NATO - for operations conducted as part of European Security and Defence...

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