Strasbourg (France), 22 June 2009. New important step for the Eurocorps, whose framework nations, France, Germany, Belgium, Spain and Luxembourg, are today welcoming a new nation in the Headquarters. Italy is becoming the fifth...

Lunéville (France), 15-25 June 2009

Blue Gabriel: the basics of Interoperability

More than 240 personnel, almost 70 vehicles, 100 telephones, computers, routers, switchers and – of course- some coffee machines are the main...

Burgos (Spain), 11 June 2009.

EURETEX is EURocorps’ major Engineers Training EXercise. It is conducted in a multinational environment in order to develop and improve the interoperability of the engineer units affiliated to...

Strasbourg (France), 9 June 2009

Today the IV Annual NATO Legal Conference, organized by the Legal Office of the Allied Command Transformation (SEE/ACT) started at HQ Eurocorps. The Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,...

Strasbourg (France), 3 June 2009

Today a delegation of 37 Defence Attachés appointed in Paris paid a visit to Headquarters Eurocorps. They were welcomed by the Commanding General Eurocorps, the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro...

Strasbourg / Besançon (France), 26-27 May 2009

In pursuance of further education in the field of military history, members of the multinational Eurocorps Headquarters traveled to Besançon, capital of the Franche-Comté region....

Wildflecken (Germany), 14 May 2009.

Today during the distinguished visitors day at the exercise European Endeavour 09 several top ranking visitors paid a visit to the Land Component Command (LCC) provided by HQ Eurocorps. Major...

Brussel and Luxembourg, 12 May 2009

This morning the Commanding General of HQ Eurocorps, Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, paid a visit to the Belgian Chief of Defence Staff, General Charles-Henri Delcour. In the...

Strasbourg (France), 9th May 2009.

Today the Day of Europe was celebrated in the European capital. A flag ceremony took place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. A multinational Eurocorps detachment with soldiers from the...

Wildflecken (Germany), 7 May 2009

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General of HQ Eurocorps inspected the Land Component Command (LCC) at the Wildflecken Training Area. He met with Major General Sommaire, who...

Wildflecken (Germany), 4 May 2009

Exercise "European Endeavour 09"

Some 600 military personnel from HQ Eurocorps are exercising in Wildflecken Training Area. HQ Eurocorps acts as the Land Component Command (LCC). This combined...

Wildflecken (Germany), 27 April 2009

Today some 600 military personnel from HQ Eurocorps left Strasbourg in order to participate in Exercise “European Endeavour 09” at the Wildflecken Training Area in Germany. This combined...

Strasbourg (France), 23 April 2009

A group of German parliamentarians from Lower Saxony visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the visit they were welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General Eurocorps.

Strasbourg (France), 1 April 2009

A new book on HQ Eurocorps is published. This hard cover book of 200 pages, written in French, is titled: "L'Eurocorps et l'Europe de la Défense". For further information consult the website:...

Strasbourg (France), 1st April 2009

The Turkish Major General Gurdere Attila, National Military Representative to SHAPE HQ, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by...

Wildflecken (Germany), 27 March 2009

The advance party of HQ Eurocorps’ Multinational Command Support Brigade arrived in Camp Wildflecken on March 25th. Some 20 military men deal with the issues of Real Life Support for the...

Strasbourg (France), 24th March 2009

A delegation of the 1 German/Netherlands Corps headed by the French Brigadier General Berger visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by...

Strasbourg (France), 3rd March 2009

The Danish Lieutenant General Bartels, Military Representative to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he...

Strasbourg (France), 26th February 2009.

Eurocorps Commander, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, addresses a conference in the European Parliament for the Institute of Political Studies of Strasbourg.

Strasbourg (France), 24 February 2009.

The Commander of the FR/GE TIGER helicopter formation school (EFA), Colonel (DEU) Bussiek, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding...

Strasbourg (France), 02 February 2009.

The German Deputy Commander of Response Force Operations Command (RFOC) ULM, Major General Fiegle, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was...

Strasbourg (France), 29 January 2009.

Today the president, Robert WALTER, and the secretary general, Colin CAMERON, of the European Security and Defence Assembly visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call, they were...

Strasbourg (France), 27th January 2009.

The French Army Inspector, Major General Daniel, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,...

Strasbourg (France), 26 January 2009

The United States Marine Corps Advanced Warfighting School visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the visit they were welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General...

Strasbourg (France), 22nd January 2009.

The Spanish Consul in Strasbourg, Mr. Alberto Escudero Claramunt, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro...

Strasbourg, 9th January 2009. - The Farewell Ceremony for the 560 members of the French-German Brigade that will deploy to the Northern sector of Kosovo, has taken place this morning on the Marktgräfler square of the German...

Strasbourg (France), 11 December 2008.

Today Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,Commander Eurocorps, awarded 22 personnel of his multinational headquarters personnel for their outstanding work in the past year during a...

Strasbourg (France), 4 December 2008

Two months after being nominated Military Archbishop of Spain, Monsignor Juan del Río Martín has chosen Eurocorps for his first abroad pastoral visit.

Monsignor Del Río Martín was received...

Paris (France), 2 December 2008.

Annual meeting of the Eurocorps Common Committee

Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, attended the annual meeting of the Eurocorps Common Committee chaired by the French Chief...

Mourmelon (France), 27 November 2008.

The exercise was the culmination of Eurocorps’ long preparation process. This year the HQ was involved with two other exercises and an air deployment of the Fact Finding Team. This...

Mourmelon (France), 25 November 2008.

The visitor’s day, organized by HQ Eurocorps brought more than 100 guests together – civilian authorities as well as military commanders from both sides of the Atlantic. More than forty...

EXERCISEToday in a secured location the Land Component Commander of EUFOR (COM LCC), Major General Philippe Sommaire, met with high military representatives from Vulpecula, Perseus and Auriga at the Component Military Commission...

Mourmelon (France), 20th November 2008

Brigadier General DUSQUESNE, Chief of Staff of the French Rapid Reaction Corps (CRR-FR) accompanied by a multinational team of flag an staff officers paid a visit to exercise Common Effort...

Mont-Valérien (France), 19th November 2008

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General Eurocorps, paid a visit to the Operational Headquarters (OHQ) of the European Union operation EUFOR CHAD/CAR in Mont Valérien...

Cordoba (Auriga), 19th November 2008

EXERCISE: Today in the Press Information Center the Land Component Commander, Major General Philippe Sommaire, was interviewed by the international, Vulpeculan, Persean and Aurigan press....

Mourmelon (France), 18th November 2008.

Today Lieutenant General GARDNER, Deputy Commander of Allied Land Component Command of Heidelberg paid a visit to exercise Common Effort 08. After the welcome by Lieutenant General...

Mourmelon (France), 17th November 2008, 16h30

In the afternoon the participants of exercise Common Effort 2008 gathered for the opening ceremony on the parade ground of Quartier Delestraint in Camp Mourmelon. Lieutenant General...

Mourmelon (France), 14 November 2008.

Twenty nations participate with officers and soldiers integrated in the exercise, most of them EU-member states. But even non EU-members accepted the invitation to join this training...

Mourmelon (France), 13 November 2008.

Today the participants of Common Effort 08 discovered Camp Mourmelon and exercise Common Effort 08. The exercise command called everybody to gather for the introductory briefings in the Mess...

Strasbourg - Mourmelon (France), 12 November 2008.

Today the bulk of the personnel left HQ Eurocorps and drove to Camp Mourmelon. After a road deployment of 320 kilometers some 2000 soldiers arrived at the "in processing" point.

Strasbourg (France), 5-6 November 2008

During two days, the 8th Eurocorps Committee gathered in Strasbourg. Officers from the five framework nations: Belgium, France, Germany, Spain and Luxembourg, met at HQ Eurocorps in the...

Strasbourg (France), 5th November 2008.

The new Chinese Consul General in Strasbourg, Mrs. Li Fushun, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, she was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro...

Strasbourg (France), 04 November 2008

Today, the Spanish “Flag officers Course” has paid a visit to Eurocorps Headquarters. Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, welcomed the group of 42 officers who attended a...

Toledo (Spain), 31st October 2008

Today Lieutenant General PITARCH, Eurocorps Commander, presided the Award Ceremony for the Prize “Gran Capitán”, posthumously granted to Lieutenant General ALVAREZ DEL MANZANO.

Strasbourg (France), 27 October 2008

Today, the Communication and Information Systems Company (CIS Coy) left HQ Eurocorps for the training area in Camp Mourmelon in France. Some 68 persons will install the necessary computers...

Strasbourg (France), 20th October 2008

The Romanian Consul General, Marcel Alexandru, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding...

Strasbourg (France), 16 October 2008.

Today, the Irish Lieutenant General Patrick Nash, EU Operation Commander of EUFOR CHAD/CAR visited HQ Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by Lieutenant...

Strasbourg (France), 14 October 2008

The American Consul General, Vincent P. Carver, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by Brigadier General Alfredo Ramirez, Deputy Chief...

Strasbourg (France), 13 October 2008.

Today the first elements of the Multinational Command Support Brigade (MNCS Bde) left HQ Eurocorps. The lorries transported shelters from the Command Post Training area to the French...

Madrid (Spain), 12 October 2008

Eurocorps Commander, LTG Pedro Pitarch, attended the military parade in Madrid on the Spanish National Day.

After the parade, LTG Pitarch attended the reception given by the King of Spain to...

Strasbourg (France) 9 October 2008

At the Aubert de Vincelles barracks, a ceremony to celebrate the Spanish and German National Days has been organized.

Because the national days of these two Eurocorps’ framework nations are...

Bucharest, 7 October 2008

The Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Eurocorps Commander, has traveled today to Romania for an official visit, responding to an invitation of the Romanian Armed Forces General Staff.

Strasbourg (France), 4 October 2008

15 years today, a standing multinational cooperation

Presided by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, commander Eurocorps, accompanied by the mayor of Strasbourg and senator, Mr Roland Ries, the...

Strasbourg (France), 4 October 2008

Today a press conference took place in the town hall of the city of Strasbourg. International, national and local press attended this conference, an occasion to get update on the current...

Sevilla (Spain), 30th September 2008

Today Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General of the Eurocorps, executed the imposition of the red sash on a Spanish brigade general from the Spanish Land Forces Headquarters in...

Florence (Italy), 19th September 2008

EUROCORPS Commander, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, attended last Friday, September 19th 2008, the military ceremony that took place in Florence, Italy, for the Change of Command of...

Strasbourg (France), 16th September 2008

The Institute for Higher National Defence Studies (IHEDN) from Paris (France) used the conference infrastructure of HQ Eurocorps to organize its 174th study session in Strasbourg (France)...

Strasbourg (France), 16th September 2008

The American Lieutenant General Karl W. Eikenberry, Deputy Chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Military Committee, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office...

Strasbourg (France), 15th September

Colonel Michel Robiquet, the new commander of the "Region de Gendarmerie" in Alsace, paid a visit to Eurocorps and had an office call with the Commanding General Eurocorps, Lieutenant General...

Strasbourg (France), 04 September 2008

Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commanding General, was invited to the official opening of the new European School in Strasbourg. This ceremony was presided by the French...

Strasbourg (France), 19 Aug 2008.

The British Major General J J C BUCKNALL CBE (UK Army), Chief of Staff of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was...

Monday, 14th, July

A military parade took place today in Strasbourg to commemorate the French national day (seizure of “la Bastille” by revolutionaries and end of the French monarchy). Units representing the police, the...

Strasbourg (France), 10th July 2008.

The French Lieutenant General Christian Damay, Commander of the French Rapid Reaction Corps, visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed by...

Strasbourg (France), July 9th 2008

A multinational military parade took place today at the Eurocorps to celebrate the national days of Belgium (July 21st), France (July 14th ) and Luxembourg (June 23rd).

The troops were...

Strasbourg (France), 4th July 2008

Mrs Claude-France Arnould, Director for Defence aspects at the Secretary General of the European Union Council visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, she...

Strasbourg (France), 3rd July 2008.

Today the French Air Force Lieutenant General Labaye, head of the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies, visited HQ Eurocorps. He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,...

Strasbourg (France), 2nd July 2008.

The British Lieutenant General Richard Shirreff, Commander of Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he was welcomed...

Strasbourg (France), 23rd June 2008.

The Dutch Brigadier General Van Wiggen, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations of the 1st (German/Netherlands) Corps visited Headquarters Eurocorps. During the office call and the book signing, he...

Strasbourg (France), 20th June 2008

At the Aubert de Vincelles Barracks during a ceremony presided by Major General Eddy Testelmans, Commander of the Belgian Landcomponent, Belgian Brigadiergeneral Eddy Staes became the new...

Strasbourg (France), 19th June 2008.

Today during a ceremony Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch handed over the post of Deputy Chief of Staff Operations to Brigadier General Eddy Staes (right side of the picture). He replaces...

Strasbourg (France), 13th June 2008.

Lieutenant Colonel (Belgian Army) DUYCK becomes the Commander of the Headquarters Support Battalion (HQ Spt Bn) of HQ Eurocorps. He replaces Lieutenant Colonel (German Army) WACHTER.

Strasbourg (France), 13th June 2008.

Today Commander Eurocorps awarded 24 of his multinational headquarters personnel for their outstanding work in the past year during a commendation parade in the Aubert de Vincelles barracks.

Strasbourg (France), 12th June 2008

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Eurocorps Commander, paid Mr. Roland RIES a courtesy call. Mr. RIES is the mayor of the city of Strasbourg that hosts the multinational Headquarters...

Strasbourg (France), 12th June 2008

Today at 14h00 the exercise ended with a closing ceremony at the parade ground of the Aubert de Vincelles barracks.

Strasbourg (France), 10th June 2008.

The Polish Brigadier General Pilot Slawomir Kaluźiński, Deputy Chief of Staff Support of Allied Air Component Command (AOCC) Headquarters Ramstein visited Headquarters Eurocorps.

Strasbourg (France)

On Monday 9th June 2008 (S+3) in the afternoon the Commanding General of HQ Eurocorps, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, accompanied by Brigadier General Georg Nachtsheim, inspected the EC's on-going CP...

Strasbourg (France), 8th June 2008

On the training platform of HQ Eurocorps at the Aubert de Vincelles barracks two different worlds can be identified: the Directing Staff (DISTAFF) with the response cells (RCs) and the Primary...

Strasbourg (France), 7th June 2008 (13h00-19h30)

Each year Headquarters Eurocorps organizes a family day in the month of June. This year it is a special occasion because we have this Eurocorps family celebration in the middle of...

Brussels (Belgium), 7th June 2008.

HQ Eurocorps was present with its exposition stand at the Open Door of the Council of the European Union in Brussels. At the European Consilium Building, in the heart of the European district...

Strasbourg (France), 7th June 2008

Seville (Perseus) Today work continued at the Initial Command Post (ICP) of Land Component Command of EUFOR AP. The Initial Command Post commands and controls the Initial Entry Forces during...

Strasbourg (France), 6th June 2008

Today Major General MARENGO, Commanding General of EMF2, payed a visit to the Eurocorps’ Exercise Command Post training II/08. At the training platform together with the Chief of Staff,...

Sevilla (Spain), 5th June 2008

In his address, General Pitarch broached several subjects: firstly he highlighted the importance for the European Defence of the development of the concept of Reinforced Cooperation and Permanent...

Strasbourg (France), 5th June 2008.

Today the participants at the Exercise Command Post training II/08 employed at the Initial Command Post (ICP) received the visit of the Exercise Commander, Brigadier General Ramirez, Deputy...

Sevilla (Spain), 5th June 2008.

Today Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, accompanied by Major General Hubert De Vos, Deputy Chief of Staff Operations, has been received by the Delegate of the Spanish...

Badajoz (Spain), 4th June 08.

Today Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, visited the 11 Spanish Mechanized Brigade in Badajoz, in the South-West of Spain, accompanied by Lieutenant General Virgilio Sanudo,...

Strasbourg (France), 4th June 2008

Today the participants at Exercise Command Post training II/08 were occupied with the continuation of the SICF training (a learning process in order to operate the French Forces Information and...

Sevilla (Spain), 3rd June 2008.

Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, paid a visit to the Headquarters of the Spanish Land Forces, command level of the Spanish Army units that are assigned to HQ Eurocorps....

Strasbourg (France), 2nd June 2008

Today the bulk of the participants arrived at HQ Eurocorps and started the exercise with the traditional in-processing.

Elements from Eurocorps' Multinational Command Support Brigade (MNCS...

Strasbourg (France), 1st June 2008.

This sunny Sunday the Public Information Office of HQ Eurocorps was present at the “Fête des deux rives” from 10h00 till 18h00. They distributed information on HQ Eurocorps. They talked with...

Strasbourg (France), 27th May 2008

HQ Eurocorps will execute its Command Post exercise from the 2nd June till 13th June 2008. Some 500 soldiers will participate coming from Belgium, France, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg and...

Strasbourg (France), 28th May 2008.

Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General Eurocorps, went to the opening ceremony of the exercise European Endeavour in Stetten am Kalten Markt / Black Forrest in...

Thursday 22nd of May 2008, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General of the Eurocorps, executed the imposition of the red sash on Spanish Brigade General Ramirez, Deputy Chief of Staff Support.

Especially this...

Strasbourg (France), 22nd May 2008

Today a delegation of the Defence Committee of the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Western European Union (WEU), headed by the British chairman Robert WALTER, visited Headquarters Eurocorps,...

Today thirty-seven members of the French Senate's Financial Committee visited Headquarters Eurocorps. They attended a Eurocorps briefing and broached financial aspects in particular.

Mr Arthuis, the committee's president, and...

Strasbourg (France), 19th May 2008.

This Monday an example of the daily application of modern communication technology was given by Eurocorps. From his office, the Eurocorps Commanding General, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,...

Strasbourg (France), 15th May 2008

Today a demonstration team from the 57th Artillery Regiment of Bitche (France) surprised the members of the Commanders' Conference. A 75mm artillery gun appeared on the parade ground, pulled by...

Strasbourg (France), 15th-16th May 2008

The Commanders' Conference 2008 is being conducted on the 15th and 16th May 2008 in the Aubert de Vincelles compound in Strasbourg. The general aim of Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch with...

Strasbourg (France), 14th May 2008

The International Division of the Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJ), oldest established organization of professional journalists in the world, visited HQ Eurocorps. The journalists...

Strasbourg (France), 9th May 2008.

Today was the Day of Europe. It was celebrated during a ceremony that took place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. A multinational Eurocorps detachment were the actors of the flag...

Strasbourg (France), 8th May 2008.

During the investiture Major General SOMMAIRE, Deputy Commanding General Eurocorps, made Major General Fransisco PUENTES (Spain) and Brigadier General Walter SPINDLER (Germany) knights of the...

Brussels (Belgium), 5th May 2008.

Upon request of the President of the Subcommission for Security and Defence, Karl Von Wogau, the Eurocorps Commander for the first time officially addressed today the European Parliamentarians...

Strasbourg (France), 4th May 2008

Headquarters Eurocorps was present at the annual Open Door of the European Parliament at Strasbourg. From 10h00 to 18h00 thousands visited our Eurocorps exposition stand and talked with...

Orzysz (Poland), 23rd April 2008

Today Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch visited the 15th Polish Mechanized Brigade in Orzysz, in the North-East of Poland.

He was welcomed by Brigadier General Zbigniew SMOK, who presented his...

Warsaw (Poland), 22nd April 2008

Today the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Commanding General Eurocorps, started an official visit to Poland in response to an invitation of the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish...

Leopoldsburg (Belgium) – 14 & 15 April 2008.

In the late afternoon of the 14th April, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General Eurocorps, arrived in the garrison of the 1st Belgian Medium Brigade, one of the...

Lunéville (France), 14-24 April 2008

Headquarters Eurocorps (HQ EC) conducted Exercise “Blue Gabriel” from 14 to 24 April 2008 at a French barrack near Lunéville (France), under HQ EC G6 Branch as OSE (Officer Scheduling the...

On April 2nd a wreath laying ceremony was held at the Ossuary of Douaumont near Verdun (France). Flowers were laid, the eternal flame of the Unknown Soldier was rekindled and letters from French and German soldiers from the Great...

Strasbourg/Verdun – In pursuance of further education in the field of military history, members of the multinational Eurocorps Headquarters travelled to the World War I battlefields in the proximity of Verdun at the beginning of...

Strasbourg (France), 27th March 2008

Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Commanding General of the Eurocorps since September 21st, 2007, has received today from Mr HAGENBACH, regional director of the ‘Crédit Industriel et...

Strasbourg/Entzheim/Pau (France), 5-6 March 2008

Eurocorps activates the Fact Finding Team (FFT = 26 soldiers and 7 vehicles), its advance party for operational deployments.

The aircraft takes off from Entzheim and lands after...

Valdahon (France), 25-29 February 2008

EURETEX is EURocorps’ major Engineers Training EXercise. In preparation for a real mission in a multinational environment, it was conducted to develop and improve the interoperability of...

Strasbourg (France), 19th February 2008

Colonel Gaston Reinig, Chief of Defense Staff of Luxembourg since 21 January 2008, paid a visit to the Headquarters Eurocorps today. He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch,...

On 16th January a delegation of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence, headed by its president, Karl von Wogau, paid a visit to Headquarters Eurocorps.

Strasbourg - 11th January 2008 – This afternoon, high ranking authorities, including several Ministers of Defence from Eurocorps’s Framework Nations, visited our Headquarters.

Madrid (Spain) 18th December 2007

Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, attended the annual meeting of the Eurocorps Common Committee chaired by the Spanish Chief of Defence, General Sanz Roldan.This year,...

Strasbourg (France), 13th December 2007

Headquarters Eurocorps celebrated Christmas during a lunch at both barracks: Aubert de Vincelles and Lizé. Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commander Eurocorps, addressed his soldiers and...

Strasbourg (France), 10 December 2007

At the Aubert de Vincelles Barracks during a ceremony presided by Major General Testelmans, Commander of the Belgian Landcomponent, Belgian Brigadiergeneral Hubert De Vos became the new...

Brussels – 21st November 2007. This afternoon, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding General Eurocorps, paid a visit to the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, at the Council of...

Wildflecken (Germany), 19 November 2007

Distinguished visitors and media (Spanish TVE television team and German local correspondents) paid a visit to Exercise Common Tenacity. High-ranking Flags, officers and Spanish Senators...

On 14 November 2007 18:00 hours, the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH Commanding General of the Eurocorps met during a scheduled office call the President of the European Parliament, Hans PÖTTERING.

Wildflecken (Germany), November 13th

In the afternoon the participants of exercise Common Tenacity 2007 gathered for the opening ceremony on the Eisenhower Square in Camp Wildflecken. Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Commanding...

Wildflecken (Germany), 12 November 2007

This weekend a stormy weather front coming from the East hit the Rhön Mountains in Germany. At an altitude of 600 meter, Camp Wildflecken experienced heavy snowfall. In no time the command...

Wildflecken (Germany), 10 November 2007

Some 200 participants at exercise Common Tenacity train since 3 days on the Communication and Information System (CIS) and on the KORA (Corps level Simulation Model) of the German Army...

On 7 November 2007, the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH Commanding General of the Eurocorps since September 21rst paid a visit to the Chief of Staff of the Luxemburg Army, Colonel Nico RIES to discuss on the situation of...

Strasbourg (France), November 6th 2007

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Spanish Commanding General of the Eurocorps Headquarters since September 21st, paid Mr Philippe RICHERT a courtesy call. Mr RICHERT is the...

Wildflecken (Germany), November 5th 2007

Today the bulk of the participants arrived at the training area in Camp Wildflecken, the German Army Warfighting Simulation Center. For three weeks some 1000 soldiers from 11 different...

Madrid (Spain), Oct 29th 2007

the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH Commanding General of the Eurocorps since September 21rst paid a visit to the Chief of Defence Staff of the Spanish Armed Forces General Felix Sanz...

Paris (France), October 25th 2007

The Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH Commanding General of the Eurocorps since September 21rst paid a visit to the Chief of Defense (Chef d’état-major des armées) of the French Armed...

Strasbourg (France), October 24th 2007

General PITARCH Eurocorps Commander has presided the ceremony in commemoration of the Federal Constitutional Law on the permanent neutrality of Austria passed on 26 October 1955 . For this...

October 24th 2007, 1140 am

Two mirages 2000 from Nancy airbase (FRA) and four F-16 from Florennes airbase (BEL) flow over the Eurocorps HQ to celebrate the 15th anniversary of the Air Representation to the Eurocorps.

This...

Berlin (Germany), October 23rd 2007

The Commanding General of the Eurocorps, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, paid a visit to the Chief of Staff (Generalinspekteur) of the German Bundeswehr General Wolfgang Schneiderhan in...

Strasbourg (France), October 19th 2007

Lieutenant General PITARCH visited Monsieur Jean-Paul COSTA, French judge , President of the Europeen Human Right Court since 19 January 2007 after five years of service as vice...

Strasbourg – Lieutenant General Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, has held today a meeting with a Japanese press delegation interested for this European Unit.

LTG Pitarch and his Chief of Staff, General Nachtsheim, have received...

Madrid (Spain), October 12th 2007

Eurocorps Commander, LTG Pedro Pitarch, attended the military parade in Madrid on the Spanish National Day.After the parade, LTG Pitarch attended the reception given by the King of Spain to...

Strasbourg (France), October 10th 2007

It is traditional for a new commander to pay tribute to the Strasbourg citizens who died for their country. Today Lieutenant General PITARCH laid a wreath at the Memorial on place de la...

October 10th 2007, at the Aubert de Vincelles barracks in Strasbourg (France), a ceremony to celebrate the Spanish and German National Days has been organized.

Because the national days of these two Eurocorps’ framework nations...

Strasbourg (France), October 9th 2007

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH,Eurocorps Commander, paid Mrs Fabienne KELLER a courtesy call. Mrs KELLER is the mayor of the city of Strasbourg that hosts the multinational...

Müllheim (Germany), October 4th 2007

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Commanding General of Headquarters Eurocorps, payed a visit to the German-French Brigade, the spear point of  Eurocorps’ combat forces. The...

Strasbourg (France), October 3rd 2007

Today, Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Commanding General of Headquarters Eurocorps, met for an office call with the Préfet de la Région Alsace, Préfet du Bas Rhin, Mister Jean Marc...

Strasbourg (France), September 21st 2007

At the Aubert de Vincelles barracks the change of command is executed with symbolism. The pennant of HQ Eurocorps plays a primary role. The Belgian Lieutenant General Charles-Henri...

Strasbourg (France), September 21st 2007

Today, during a ceremony presided by the Spanish Chief of Defence General Félix Sanz Roldán, the change of command at Headquarters Eurocorps took place. Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro...

Lieutenant General Pitarch graduated from the Military Academy of Zaragoza as a First Lieutenant of Infantry in 1968. His first assignments include: platoon leader and company commander in the Infantry Regiment “Aragón”, teacher...

Strasbourg (France), September 14th 2007

Today, during a ceremony presided by Lieutenant General Charles Henri DELCOUR, Commanding General of HQ Eurocorps, the change of command at the Multinational Command Support Brigade took...

Strasbourg (France), 4th September 2007

Today, presided by Lieutenant General Gérard VAN CAELENBERGE, commander of the Belgian Air Component, the Air Representation at Eurocorps changed command. Spanish Colonel LLANOS handed his...

Brussels (Belgium), 21st July 2007

After an inspection by the King of the Belgians, HRH Albert II, a multinational Eurocorps detachment marched as part of a “EU 50 Years group” through the crowded streets of Brussels and in...

Peutie (Belgium), July 20th 2007

A multinational Eurocorps detachment integrated in the ‘EU 50 Years’ group, an important and symbolic part of this year’s Belgian National Day parade. Together with the other marching...

Nijmegen (The Netherlands), July 18th 2007

The 91st “Nijmeegse Vierdaagse” started without problems on Tuesday July 17th. Eight soldiers of Headquarters Eurocorps participate in this traditional four days march together with...

Strasbourg (France), July 12th 2007

European Parliament President Hans-Gert PöTTERING was welcomed in front of a multinational honour guard by Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour. The President of the European Parliament...

Strasbourg (France), July 11th 2007

To celebrate the Belgian, French and Luxembourg national days, a military ceremony was organized at the Eurocorps Headquarters barracks Aubert de Vincelles today. After Lieutenant General...

Strasbourg (France) - Brussels (Belgium), July 2007.

A very specific training schedule gathered Eurocorps Headquarters’ soldiers on the parade ground of the Aubert de Vincelles barracks these days. One could hear parade...

Strasbourg (France), June 26th 2007

Every year some 2000 to 3000 civilians pay a visit to headquarters Eurocorps to be briefed by its public information officers. The visitors are mostly students invited by the European...

Buchholz (Beachland), 21st June 2007

EXERCISE

EURO LAB forces successfully completed the first phase of operation NEMEA today. This afternoon the fictitious scenario of Eurocorps exercise Common Endeavour will come to a...

Strasbourg (France), 20th June 2007

Lieutenant General Wolfgang OTTO, Commander German Army Forces Command at Koblenz (Germany), and Lieutenant General Jan OERDING, Commander Response Force Operation Command at Ulm (Germany)...

Strasbourg (France), 19th June 2007

Today Spanish Army Chief General Carlos VILLAR TURRAU visited Headquarters Eurocorps and the ongoing exercise Common Endeavour. He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Charles-Henri DELCOUR,...

EXERCISE

Early 2006 the situation of ethnic minorities in both BEACHLAND and AMBERLAND aggravated.

Incidents including artillery fires occurred between the two armed forces along the borders. The armed ethnic group Scorpions...

Celle (Coastland), 17th June 2007

Brigade units of the EUFOR LAB Land Forces started deploying into an area of 6 kilometres on both sides of the cease-fire line between Beachland and Amberland. The fictitious and generic...

Strasbourg (France), 16th June 2007

Helicopter pilot Theodoros KAPETANIOS is a Eurocorps Staff Officer from the Peloponnesus. In Common Endeavour he is handling all army aviation related matters. “It is the first exercise where...

Strasbourg (France), 15 June 2007

At the training platform security is a top priority. The participants have to be able to eventually also tumble real incidents that can happen during the exercise. Training with the fire...

Strasbourg (France), 14 June 2007

Another busy day at the training platform of HQ EUROCORPS. The Multinational Command Support Brigade continues to prepare the facility for the start of operation NEMEA. The last shelters have...

Strasbourg (France), June 13th 2007

Today HQ EUROCORPS' personnel train the multinational brigades and the augmentees in the use of the specific command tools that will be used during "Common Endeavour". Practical lessons on the...

Strasbourg (France), June 11th 2007

The command post exercise "Common Endeavour 2007" started with the traditional In-Processing at the dining facilities of HQ Eurocorps at the Aubert de Vincelles compound. Early in the morning...

Strasbourg (France), June 11th 2007

In the afternoon 596 participants, soldiers from twelve different nations, gathered for the official welcome parade taking place at Aubert de Vincelles compound.

The countries represented...

Strasbourg (France), June 7th 2006

Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commander Eurocorps, and his flag officers visited the training facility of HQ Eurocorps for a final inspection before the start of exercise "Common...

"Common Endeavour" will start next week in HQ EUROCORPS' own barracks. From June 11th to June 22nd 2007 a command post exercise will take place, training EUROCORPS' soldiers. Through this exercise EUROCORPS' high level of...

On May 10th, Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commander Eurocorps, was awarded the honor of "Commandeur dans l'Ordre Grand-Ducal de la Couronne de Chêne" by the Luxembourg Minister of Defence, Mister Jean-Louis Schiltz....

Strasbourg (France), 9th May 2007.

Today was the Day of Europe. It was celebrated during a ceremony that took place at the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Mrs Fabienne Keller, mayor of Strasbourg, and Mr P.Nikiforus...

Strasbourg (France), 1st May 2007.

As every year since 1993, the European Parliament opened its doors to the public on 1st of May. The theme set for this year was of course the 50th anniversary of the Treaty of Rome. Eurocorps,...

Strasbourg (France), 5th April 2007.

Major General Carlos Enrique Aocosta Perez, Vice Minister of Defense and Chief of the General Staff of the Republic of Venezuela, paid a visit to Eurocorps Headquarters on April 5th 2007...

Strasbourg (France), 3rd April 2007.

Major General Giacomo Guarnera (Italy), Commander EUROFOR (HQ in Firenze, Italy), paid a visit to the Eurocorps HQ today. After an office call with Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour,...

Strasbourg (France), 1st March 2007.

The Deputy President of the European Satellite Centre (EUSC), based in Torrejon (Spain), visited the HQ Eurocorps today. Mister Tomaz Lovrencic was accompanied by his Head of Operations...

Strasbourg (France), 8th February 2007.

The attendees to the General Staff Officers course of the Belgian Royal Defense College paid a visit to Eurocorps Headquarters today. They were accompanied by Lieutenant-General Michel...

Strasbourg (France), 25th January 2007.

On 25th January, at the invitation of Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commanding General of the Eurocorps, numerous civilian authorities of the Alsace region, the city of...

Strasbourg (France), 23rd January 2007.

Mr. Guy Verhofstadt, Belgian Prime Minister, paid for the first time a visit to the Eurocorps headquarters. He was welcomed at Entzheim airport by Mr. Jean-Paul Faugère, Préfet of...

On 23rd January 2007, Mr. Guy Verhofstad, Belgian Prime Minister, paid for the first time a visit to the Eurocorps HQ. The Minister of Defence, Mr. André Flahaut, accompanied him. After a few briefings, Lieutenant General...

Strasbourg (France), 10th January 2007

The 7th rotation of the NATO Response Force (NRF) ends today, after a six month long operational standby period. Eurocorps assumed the Command of the Land Component of this NRF7...

Strasbourg (France), 20th December 2006

City Mayor Mrs Fabienne Keller and Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour met briefly under the Place Kléber's Grand Sapin (large christmas tree) for the hand over occasion this...

Berlin (Germany), 14th December 2006

At the Common Committee meeting in Berlin Eurocorps was heartily congratulated on its NRF-preparation and standby period. The Common Committee, composed of the political directors of the...

Strasbourg (France), 12th December 2006.

During one of the first cold days of this winter, the Eurocorps met in a short but official ceremony. Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commanding General Eurocorps, commended 22...

Strasbourg (France), November 10th 2006

The Headquarters Eurocorps had it autumn cross-country on the 10th November 2006. All available Eurocorps personnel ran at this cold and fresh but sunny morning. The start and the arrival...

Valdahon (France),7th November 2006

Lieutenant-General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commander Eurocorps, visited units of the French-German Brigade in the French training area of Valdahon. The 110 French Régiment d'Infanterie and the...

Strasbourg (France), 24th October 2006.

Some 50 high ranking military visitors will amongst other witness the Fact Finding Team  (FFT) training of the NRF Land Component today. The ongoing exercise Common Tenacity...

Strasbourg (France), 22nd October 2006.

One of the main objectives of Common Tenacity 2006 is to integrate the newcomers who have joined the Eurocorps in the second half of 2006, and are now committed with their elder colleagues...

Eurocorps Headquarters Aubert de Vincelles, 16th October 2006.

In the early morning hours Eurocorps has started its exercise nicknamed "Common Tenacity 06". After the inprocessing sequence and a series of briefings setting the...

Strasbourg (France), 11th October 2006.

Because the national days of some of Eurocorps’ framework nations are close one to another, the Eurocorps community celebrates them together. In Germany the 3rd of October or “Tag der...

Strasbourg (France), 27th September 2006

The organization of this event, the number of participants and a nice weather made it a success. The first aim was to welcome the summer rotation newcomers’ families and to inform them...

Strasbourg (France), 26-27 September 2006

The Eurocorps NATO Response Force-7 (NRF) Land Component Commanders Conference III/2006 was conducted on the 26th and 27th September 2006 in the Aubert de Vincelles compound in...

The French-German Brigade (FGB) is a bi-national major unit. The Brigade covers the entire mission spectrum of European Union (EU) and NATO operations. They provide the core of an Initial Entry Force, primarily in a Eurocorps-led...

BERGEN (Germany), 13th September

Commander Eurocorps, Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, witnessed a Field Training Exercise (FTX) from the French-German Brigade on the 12th and 13th September 2006.The Brigade is...

Strasbourg (France), 12th July 2006.

A military ceremony was organized at the Eurocorps Headquarters barracks Aubert de Vincelles today to celebrate the Belgian, French and Luxembourg national days. Lieutenant General...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 10th July

The NRF-camp Baia das Gatas has ceased to exist. The last tents were broken down on 7th July and the last containers left for Mindelo-harbour the same day to be shipped back to Europe. After...

Cape Verde, July 5th

Local media followed the invitation to get an idea of the ongoing dismantling of NATO Camp Baia das Gatas on July 4th. News agencies “Inforpress” and “Liberal Cabo Verde” were present together with newspaper...

Mindelo (Cape Verde) July 4th, 2006

The bulk of the vehicles of the NRF Brigade was loaded onboard the Danish container vessel “Tor Anglia” in Mindelo Harbour on July 3rd. These are busy days for the military of the French...

Strasbourg (France)/Cape Verde, July 3rd 2006

The core of Eurocorps personnel redeployed from Cape Verde to Strasbourg today. The NRF-camp at Baia das Gatas, for some time “the second largest city of Sao Vicente”, was run by...

On July 1st 2006 HQ Eurocorps starts the six month stand-by period as Land Component Command of NRF7.

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 26th June 2006

NRF announced today that it has destroyed the last of the Cape Verdian Armed Forces’ anti-personnel land mines. At 1700 local time, in an explosion initiated by the Cape Verde Chief of...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 23rd June 2006

More than 150 distinguished visitors paid a visit to the NRF Exercise "Steadfast Jaguar". NATO secretary general Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and SACEUR (US General James Jones) were accompanied...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 26th June 2006

NRF announced today that its German Battle Group (292 Light Infantry Battalion) has turned over ten military trucks to the Cape Verde Armed Forces.  This was done in gratitude for...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 25th June 2006

650 runners partcipated at the Land Component Camp in Baia das Gatas in a 6.5 km charity run meant to improve living conditions of Cape Verdian kids. Amongst them Eurocorps Major General...

Cape Verde, 21st June

NATO military exercising NRF in the Cape Verdian Islands are organizing a charity run to improve sanitation and water supply in five Bella Vista and Mindelo schools. The soldiers of the Land Component...

With soldiers debarking from the ocean in one of the southwestern Santo Antao bays, the NATO Exercise Steadfast Jaguar is picking up speed and jointness. The expeditionary force NRF was successfully strategically deployed in the...

Cape Verde, 19th June 2006

With soldiers debarking from the ocean in one of the southwestern Santo Antao bays, the NATO Exercise Steadfast Jaguar is picking up speed and jointness. The expeditionary force NRF was successfully...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 16th June 2006

As NRF7 Land Component Commander (LCC), the Belgian Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour visited the LCC troops deployed on Cape Verde from 11th until 14th June. He was accompanied by...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 15th June

The NATO exercise "Steadfast Jaguar 06" starts officially in Cape Verde today. More than 7000 sailors,soldiers and aircrew of the NATO's Response Force "NRF" have...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 12th June 2006

In the early morning of June 10th the multinational main body of the Eurocorps personnel for NATO-exercise Steadfast Jaguar were flown from Maastricht, The Netherlands (see picture) to...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), June 7th, 2006

Two days before arrival of the main participants to the exercise Steadfast Jaguar, the Director of NATO Communication and Information Systems Service Agency (NCSA), German Lieutenant...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 4th June 2006.

The Hungarian Platoon, led by 2. Lt Peter Jagadicz, is rightly proud about its outstanding capabilities.

The deployment of NATO forces for the NRF-exercise Steadfast Jaguar is speeding...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), June 5th 2006

Near to the NRF Land Component Forward Headquarters, the Spanish construction company Castrametacion Bn II/11 has started to prepare the soil for the Special Operations Component compound....

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 30 May 2006

On 27th May His Excellency Mr Pedro Corona Rodrigues Pires, President of the Republic of Cape Verde, paid a visit to the Eurocorps soldiers present on Sao Vicente Island. A first wave of 60...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 30 May 2006

Some 100 more Eurocorps military deployed to Cape Verde on May 29th. This second wave brings the advanced party for NRF-exercise Steadfast Jaguar to 160 soldiers. It consists mainly of...

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde), 29th May 2006

On 25 May the first elements of EUROCORPS arrived in Cape Verde to take part in the NATO major exercise nicknamed Steadfast Jaguar 06. The main task of the advanced party is to build up...

Strasbourg (France), 17 May 2006

Commander Eurocorps awarded 20 of his multinational headquarters personnel for their outstanding work in the past year during a commendation parade in the Aubert de Vincelles barracks today....

Strasbourg (France), 10th May 2006

This exercise was the first where the Eurocorps was activated as Land Component Command of the NATO Response Force 7 (NRF7) and conducted by the Joint Force Command Brunssum (JFC-B) (The...

Strasbourg/Entzheim (France), 2nd May 2006

In the framework of the preparation for Steadfast Jaguar, the containers movement started yesterday. 32 of them were transported today to the railway station of Cronenbourg to reach by...

With more than 31000 visitors on April 30th and May 1st, the open door of the European Parliament was certainly a success. Europe may not have a constitution (yet), but Europeans are more than interested in getting acquainted...

Strasbourg (France), 1st May 2006

9th May is the Day of Europe. To celebrate this day, the European Parliament throws open its doors to the public every year. Several debates with MEPs are on the program including cultural...

Strasbourg/Entzheim (France), 27th April 2006.

Together with the exercise Steadfast Jackpot 06, the logistic preparation of the next exercise, Steadfast Jaguar 06, is already taking place on the Entzheim Airfield. The main...

Strasbourg/Entzheim (France), 27th April 2006

Lieutenant General David L. Judd, Deputy Commander of the Joint Force Command Brunssum and designated Commander of the NATO Response Force (NRF), visited today the exercise Steadfast...

Strasbourg/Entzheim (France), April 24th 2006

Steadfast Jackpot 2006 is a NATO Response Force 7 two-level exercise. It starts today and will end on 9th May. The exercise area is the former Military Airbase of Entzheim, near...

Eurocorps continues its preparation for the NATO Response Force Strasbourg - From 24th April to 09th May 2006, EUROCORPS will participate in a NATO Response Force exercise at the Strasbourg/Entzheim Airfield in France. The...

Strasbourg (France), April 4th 2006

Major Scott W. Morrison, from G3 Eurocorps, was awarded the Canadian Forces Special Service Medal (SSM) by Lieutenant-colonel R. Scott McLeish.  The SSM is awarded to a member of the...

In the global frame of the preparation of the Eurocorps for the NATO Response Force, Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour visited on 19th and 20th March the I/VI Spanish Infantry Regiment “Saboya”, training with the...

Strasbourg (France), March 29th 2006

Twice a year, Eurocorps organizes a mass cross country for its personnel. Everybody, coming from the Staff, the Multinational Command Support Brigade, the Headquarters Support Battalion or...

Strasbourg (France), 16th March 2006.

In the frame of a working visit to the European Institutions, Ms Catherine Colonna, French Minister of European Affairs paid a visit to the Eurocorps today. She was accompanied by a...

BITCHE (France), March 1st

Snow is marking the end of Eurocorps Exercise Brilliant Ledger. The objectives were well met by the training audiences during the three weeks they spent in the Bitche Camp Area. Winter conditions are...

The Combined Geo Support Unit (CGSU) belongs to the Land Component Command (LCC) of the NATO Response Force (NRF) enablers and provides a wide variety of geospatial supports. Four nations, France, Germany, Romania and Spain...

BITCHE (France), February 26th

View on the centre of Bitche from the strategic hill on which Louis XIV had a citadel constructed in 1680. More than 3000 military from 18 nations who arrived on 8th February 2006 for the Eurocorps...

BITCHE (France), February 22nd

The Land Component Command Tactical Commander for NRF7,Major General Francisco Puentes Zamora, in discussion with a course attendee of the Belgian Royal Defence College, Major Gunther de Kerpel....

BITCHE (France), February 23rd. A token of the interest shown in the preparation of the NRF mission, the exercise Brilliant Ledger attracted many VIPs. After the media day of 14th February and the visit of Prince Philippe of...

STRASBOURG (France), February 22nd. On his way to the French Bitche training area, Polish Brigadier General Andrej Lelewski on February 22nd made a short stop in Strasbourg to visit the Eurocorps Rear Support Command Post. The...

Lieutenant General Jean-Louis Py visited the Eurocorps' Exercise Brilliant Ledger today . He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commander Eurocorps. Lieutenant General Py is the Commanding General of the...

BITCHE (France), February 21st

His Royal Highness, Prince Philippe of Belgium visited today in Bitche the participants of the exercise Brilliant Ledger 06. The Prince was accompanied by the Minister of Defense M. André Flahaut,...

BITCHE (France), February 21st

His Royal Highness, Prince Philippe of Belgium visited today in Bitche the participants of the exercise Brilliant Ledger 06. The Prince was accompanied by the Minister of Defense M. André Flahaut,...

BITCHE (France), February 20th

The agenda of the Eurocorps HQ’s Transport Company is fully booked since 20th January. “Trans Coy”, as it is named in military jargon, deployed that day to the Bitche training area for Exercise...

BITCHE (France), February 18th.

The exercise Brilliant Ledger is in line with the exercise series aimed at preparing the Eurocorps and its subordinated units for NATO’s new mission: the Response Force. Together they will take...

BITCHE (France), February 17th

Lieutenant General Horst Martin (German Air Force) visited Eurocorps during exercise Brilliant Ledger in preparation of the NATO Response Force 7. Martin is deputy Air Commander of the Allied...

BITCHE (France), February 17th. "NRF Forces have arrived in Auriga. The actual deployment of the Land Component combat units depends on the outcome of the on going negociations between Aurigan authorities and Batari...

BITCHE (France), February 15th Brilliant Ledger

More than 40 journalists from 20 international media attended the BRILLIANT LEDGER media day today. A tactical convoy with armoured vehicles VAB and FUCHS took the journalists from...

BITCHE (France), February 14th.

A parade was organised this late afternoon to mark the end of the 1st phase of exercise Brilliant Ledger 06.In this LivEx almost 3000 troops were involved. The parade was unusual as more than 2000...

BITCHE (France), February 14th

More than 40 journalists from 20 international media assisted to the BRILLIANT LEDGER media day today. A tactical convoy with armoured vehicles VAB and FUCHS took the journalists from one location...

Bitche training area (France), February 12th. For the military participating in the LIVEX (live exercise) phase of BRILLIANT LEDGER, there is cross training on the Sunday programme today. Cross training is a learning and...

Bitche (France), 11th February 2006

In its training for the NATO Response Force 7 during Exercise Brilliant Ledger, the German 292 Infantry Battalion exercised riot control in the small combat village of the Bitche training...

Bitche (France), 11th February 2006

A Belgian Heli detachment with a MEDEVAC Helicopter participate to the exercise.

Bitche, France, 10th February 2006. Belgian Paratroopers from the 3rd Battalion (from Tielen, Belgium) had the opportunity to make an operational training jump near Metz today. The airfield of Dieuze was chosen as a landing zone...

Bitche (France), 7th February 2006

French vehicles refueling after arriving in the training area.

February 7th 2006, BITCHE Camp (FRANCE). Three inprocessing points have been activated yesterday and today in both Strasbourg and Bitche to deal with the inflow of military personnel for the exercise Brilliant Ledger. Brilliant...

Cold is ok for your computer, you could eventually even overclock it, but condensation is not. Leaving a laptop outside in subzero temperatures usually results in several dead pixels. But the worst thing you can do is open up a...

From 10th to 28th February 2006, EUROCORPS will conduct an exercise at the Training Area Bitche in France. The deployment phase has already started and re-deployment should be completed by 5th March. This exercise nicknamed...

Twenty centimeter of fresh snow in the French Bitche-area (French military training area between Strasbourg and Saarbrücken) slowed convoys yesterday and today. Eurocorps military from both the Multinational Command Support...

A commanders conference took place in Strasbourg, on 19th and 20th January 2006.

The conference, led by Eurocorps Commander Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, was especially devoted to the preparation of the Land...

During the annual meeting of the Common Committee, the Belgian Lieutenant General Charles-Henri Delcour, Commanding General of the Eurocorps, accounted for the activities of the year 2005 and in particular the lessons learned...

On 30th september 2005, the Spanish Coronel AMBRONA VEGA took over the command of the Multinational Command Support Brigade from the German Oberst BEESE.

The change of command took place between the French Général de Corps d'Armée Jean-Louis PY and the Belgian Lieutenant Général Charles-Henri Delcour on September 23th 2005 in Strasbourg.

In honour of the ISAF VI mission, HQ Eurocorps was invited to participate in the military parade of the Belgian National Day in Brussels.

Eurocorps organized exercise Common Enterprise at Entzheim Airfield near Strasbourg (France) in preparation of NRF. (17-27/05/2005)

On 16 March 2005 the official End of ISAF Parade took place at "Place Broglie" in Strasbourg (France).

Kabul (Afghanistan), 13 February 2007

During a ceremony at HQ ISAF Lieutenant General PY handed over his command to the new commander of ISAF VII. Hereby HQ Eurocorps closed its succesful mission and returned back home to...

Kabul (Afghanistan), 9 August 2004

Lieutenant General Jean-Louis PY takes the command of ISAF VI

Lieutenant Colonel (SP) SUEVOS becomes the Commander of the Headquarters Support Battalion ...

Eurocorps exercises from 11-23 June in Norway for its mission ISAF VI

Strasbourg (France), 12 May 2005

Headquarters Eurocorps celebrates the 12th anniversary of the La Rochelle Report with a reception in Salle Josephine at Strasbourg

Strasbourg – On May 1, 2004, ten new members – Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia – will join the European Union. On the occasion of this historic event, an...

Strasbourg (France), 4 March 2004.

Major General HOLMA of the Finnish Army Staff, visits the Headquarters Eurocorps

Strasbourg (France), 12 January 2004.

Major General (BEL) Charles Henri DELCOUR becomes the Chief of Staff of the Headquarters Eurocorps.

Strasbourg (France), 21 November 2003

Major General DE AYALA Y MARIN, Chief of Staff, leaves Headquarters Eurocorps

Strasbourg (France), 21 November 2003

General ALEJANDRE SINTES, Chief of the Spanish Army Staff, visits the Headquarters Eurocorps.

Oberst (GE) BEESE becomes the Commander of the Multinational Command Support Brigade (MNCS Bde) of the HQ Eurocorps. He replaces Colonel (BE) LEENAERS

Strasbourg (France), 30 October 2003.

Generalmajor (GE) Wolf-Dieter LÖSER becomes the Deputy Commanding General (DCOM) of the Eurocorps. He replaces Général Major (BE) Jean-Paul CRAVILLON

His Royal Highness, Prince Philippe of Belgium, Duke of Brabant, paid a visit to the Eurocorps on exercise in Elsenborn and Vogelsang

The change of command took place between the German Generalleutnant (GE) Holger KAMMERHOFF and the French Général de Corps d'Armée Jean-Louis PY on September 4th 2003 in Strasbourg.

Strasbourg (France), 10 December 2001

The change of command took place between the Spanish Teniente General Juan ORTUÑO and the German Generalleutnant Holger KAMMERHOFF

Strasbourg (France), 5 June 2001

The Headquarters Eurocorps begins the transformation into a Rapid Reaction Corps Headquarters.

Strasbourg (France), 26 November 1999

Change of Command from Lieutenant-General Leo VAN DEN BOSCH to Teniente General Juan ORTUÑO at the Aubert de Vincelles Barracks in Strasbourg.

Strasbourg (France), 12 December 1996

Today the Belgian King Albert II visited Headquarters Eurocorps. He was welcomed by Lieutenant General Forterre. The Belgian Eurocorps community was present at the barracks for this special...

Strasbourg (France ) 31 January 1996.

Change of Command between Generalleutnant WILLMANN and Général de Corps d'Armée FORTERRE

Loan-Couvron, 30 November 1995.

In the presence of the Ministers of Defence of the framework nations, Generalleutnant WILLMANN declared Headquarters Eurocorps operational.

Paris (France), 14 July 1994.

HQ Eurocorps participated for the first time in the French Military ceremony on the Champs Elysées. It was the first time German soldiers marched in Paris since 50 years.

Strasbourg (France), 5 November 1993

The creation ceremony of HQ Eurocorps took place on the "Place de la République" in Strasbourg. Generalleutnant WILLMAN was appointed the first Commanding General of HQ Eurocorps.