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Eurocorps
The Eurocorps in Strasbourg, France, is a multinational, fully deployable and highly autonomous headquarters comprising Germany, France, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg as Framework Nations and is open to all EUEuropean Union member and NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization-associated states. The Eurocorps is prepared to plan and conduct military operations spanning the entire mission and intensity spectrum.
Mission
The Eurocorps is foremost a military headquarters (HQHeadquarters) comprising a staff as well as support units. The Corps can command as many as 60,000 personnel.
Multinationally organised
The HQHeadquarters is manned by soldiers from France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Poland, as so-called Framework Nations. The Eurocorps is augmented by military personnel from Associated Nations – Greece, Italy, Turkey, Romania and Austria.
Operational since 1995, the Strasbourg-based ‘Headquarters Eurocorps’ has already participated in numerous missions in regions such as Afghanistan, Kosovo and Africa.
In peacetime a multinational command support brigade is subordinate to the multinational corps headquarters and its air and naval liaison teams.
The Corps provides forces for, amongst others, NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization’s rapid response force.
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Command
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Lieutenant General Piotr A. Błazeusz
Lieutenant General Piotr A. Błazeusz has been Commander of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg, France, since April 2024.
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Bastian Koob
Major General Geoffroy De Larouziere
Major General Geoffroy De Larouziere has been Deputy Commander of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg, France, since September 2023.
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Bastian Koob
Brigadier Kay Brinkmann
Brigadier Kay Brinkmann has been Chief of Staff of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg, France, since Juli 2023.
A force for the European Union and NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization
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