Eurocorps

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The Eurocorps (French: Eurocorps; German: Eurokorps), located in the city of Strasbourg, is a multinational corps headquarters. Founded by France and Germany in 1992, it is today composed of personnel from six framework nations and five associated nations. The framework nations place the Eurocorps at the service of the European Union (EU) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which certified it in 2002 as one of its nine High Readiness Land Headquarters (HRF (L) HQ). The precedents of the Eurocorps date back to 1989, when German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President François Mitterrand initiated military cooperation by establishing the Franco-German Defense and Security Council and creating a joint brigade, which became operational in 1991. Subsequently, in 1992, at the La Rochelle summit, both countries signed the report that led to the creation of the Eurocorps. That same year, the first German and French officers joined the unit. In 1993 Belgium joined, followed by...

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