EU launches crisis police force
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Five European Union defence ministers have signed an agreement to launch a joint 3,000-strong gendarmerie force to be deployed to hotspots worldwide.
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BRUSSELS Moving to resolve a weeklong crisis, the incoming president of the European Commission, JosÃ© Manuel Barroso, on Thursday put forward a new commission team, proposing Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy as justice commissioner.
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European foreign ministers from 10 Mediterranean countries are seeking to create an international force to police the Palestinian territories, the Slovenian foreign ministry said Monday.
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The European Union approved the launch of a 2,000-strong police and justice mission for Kosovo on Saturday, a day before the breakaway province is expected to make a Western-backed declaration of independence from Serbia.
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European Union experts will from next month start training police forces across Afghanistan, including southern provinces which have borne the brunt of insurgent violence, EU officials said on Tuesday.
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Five EU states signed an accord creating a new European military police force deployable to crisis situations worldwide, the latest tool in Europe's developing security arsenal.
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EU defence chiefs agree to create rapid-reaction battle groups for deployment in international hot spots.
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The European Union plans to open a mission in Iraq after the country&#39;s first free elections slated for January, to help train police, legal officials and administrators, EU foreign ministers said yesterday.
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Five European Union countries have signed an agreement creating an EU paramilitary force to assist in international peacekeeping missions.
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The European Union began its biggest-ever military operation Thursday, formally taking over NATO&#39;s peacekeeping mission in Bosnia with 7,000 troops.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 5 (IPS) - Incoming European Commission president Jose Manuel  DurÃ£o Barroso tried to end the political crisis in the European  Union Thursday as he unveiled his new team of Commissioners.
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Nato says its new rapid reaction force is ready to be deployed in crisis situations.
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The incoming president of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, is to meet party leaders in the European Parliament. This morning&#39;s meeting is a bid to avert a crisis over the nomination of Italian Rocco Buttiglione as Justice Commissioner.
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Politics: 18 September 2004, Saturday. Five European Union defence ministers have signed an agreement to launch a joint 3,000-strong gendarmerie force to be deployed to hotspots worldwide.
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British troops will be sent to Africa on emergency peacekeeping missions as part of a 10,000-strong European Union force. They will serve as members of &quot;rapidly-deployable
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"The EU will be ready to give a formal go-ahead to the mission a few days after the election"  The European Union's foreign policy chief said on Tuesday that the EU will sanction the dispatch of a police force to Serbia's breakaway province of Kosovo after the country's presidential election. via RIA Novosti
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European Union leaders agreed Friday to send a police and civilian mission to Kosovo, the EU's Portuguese presidency announced, with the Serbian province expected to move toward independence.