News overview
Commendation Ceremony - Christmas Lunch
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...
Monsignor Del Río Martín at Headquarters Eurocorps
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...
Eurocorps' Common Committee meeting in Paris
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...
Common Effort 08: End of exercise ceremony
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...
Common Effort 08: Distinguished Visitors Day
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...
Common Effort 08: Component Military Commission
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...
Common Effort 08: Visit of the Chief of Staff CRR-FR from Lille
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...
Visit to EU OHQ EUFOR CHAD/CAR
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...
Common Effort 08: Media play
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....
Common Effort 08: Visit of Lieutenant General Gardner
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...
Common Effort 08: Opening Ceremony of the exercise
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...
Common Effort 08: Multinationality rules
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...
Common Effort 08: Introduction to the exercise
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...
Common Effort 08: Exercise starts at Camp Mourmelon
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.
8th Eurocorps Committee in Aubert de Vincelles Barracks
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...
Visit of the Chinese Consul General, Mrs Li Fushun
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...
Spanish “Flag Officers Course” pays a visit to Eurocorps
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...
Award Ceremony of Prize “Gran Capitán”
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.
Common Effort 08: CIS Coy leaves for Mourmelon
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...
Visit of Romanian Consul General Marcel Alexandru
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...
Visit of EU Operation Commander of EUFOR CHAD/CAR
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...
Visit of US Consul General Vincent Carver
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...
First elements leaving for Exercise Common Effort 2008
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...
The military parade in Madrid
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...
Eurocorps celebrates the Spanish and German National Days
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...
Official visit at the Romanian Armed Forces
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.
15th Anniversary of HQ Eurocorps
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...
Press Conference for 15th Anniversary of HQ Eurocorps
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...
Eurocorps Commander imposes a red sash on a general
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...
Change of command at Headquarters EUROFOR
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...
174th IHEDN Session at HQ Eurocorps
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)...
Visit of General Karl W. Eikenberry at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Visit of Colonel Michel Robiquet at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Inauguration of the European School in Strasbourg
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...
Visit of the Chief of Staff Allied Rapid Reaction Corps
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...
French National Day Ceremony with Eurocorps participation
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...
Visit of Lieutenant General Christian Damay at HQ Eurocorps
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...
National days ceremony at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Visit of Mrs Claude-France Arnould at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Visit of French Air Force Lieutenant General Labaye at HQ Eurocorps
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,...
Visit of Lieutenant General Richard Shirreff at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Visit of Brigadier General Van Wiggen at HQ Eurocorps
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...
A new Belgian Senior National Representative
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...
A new Deputy Chief of Staff Operations
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...
New Commander of the Headquarters Support Battalion
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.
Commendation Ceremony
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.
A courtesy call to the new mayor of the city of Strasbourg
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...
Command Post Training II: End of the Exercise
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.
Visit of Brigadier General Slawomir Kaluźiński at HQ Eurocorps
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.
Commanding General inspects exercise Command Post Training II
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...
Command Post Training II: Two worlds – One exercise
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...
Command Post Training II : Family Day
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...
Eurocorps present at the Council of the European Union's Open Door in Brussels
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...
Command Post Training II: Saturday work continues
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...
Commanding General EMF2 at Command Post Training II/08
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,...
General Pitarch addressed a speech titled "Europe of the Defence: Reason of Peace"
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...
Command Post Training II: Exercise Commander at ICP
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...
Visit to Spanish Delegates of the Government
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...
Visit at the 11th Spanish Mechanized Brigade in Badajoz
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,...
Command Post Training II: SICF and FAT
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...
Commanding General Eurocorps at Spanish Land Forces Command in Sevilla
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....
Command Post Training II: In-processing
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...
Eurocorps present at «Fête des deux rives»
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...
Build up of exercise Command Post Training II
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...
Flight of the Commanding General to European Endeavour
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...
Imposition of the red sash for Brigade General Ramirez
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...
Visit of a Western European Union delegation
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,...
Visit of the French Senate's Financial Committee
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...
Train as you fight
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,...
75mm field gun demonstration for Commanders' Conference
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...
Commanders' Conference at HQ Eurocorps
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...
Visit of oldest organization of professional journalists in the world
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...
Eurocorps hoists the European flag
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...
French medals for Eurocorps members at 63rd Victory Day celebration
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...
General PITARCH addresses the European Parliament
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...
HQ Eurocorps present at Open Door EU Parliament
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...
Visit at the 15th Polish Mechanized Brigade
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...
Eurocorps Commander in Poland for an official visit
Warsaw (Poland), 22nd April 2008
Today the Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro PITARCH, Eurocorps Commander, started an official visit to Poland in response to an invitation of the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Armed...
Eurocorps Commander meets the 1st Belgian Medium Brigade
Leopoldsburg (Belgium) – 14 & 15 April 2008.
In the late afternoon of the 14th April, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, arrived in the garrison of the 1st Belgian Medium Brigade, one of the earmarkable...
Eurocorps conducts exercise "Blue Gabriel 2008"
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...
Wreath laying ceremony at Verdun (France)
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...
Graveside reconciliation – Commemoration in Verdun
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...
A new legal capacity for Eurocorps
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...
Eurocorps deploys its reconnaissance assets
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...
EURocorps’ major Engineers Training EXercise
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...
Chief of Defense Staff of Luxembourg visits HQ Eurocorps
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,...
A delegation of the European Parliament Subcommittee on Security and Defence at Headquarters Eurocorps
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.
High ranking authorities from Framework Nations visit Headquarters Eurocorps
Strasbourg - 11th January 2008 – This afternoon, high ranking authorities, including several Ministers of Defence from Eurocorps’s Framework Nations, visited our Headquarters.
Eurocorps' Common Committee meeting in Madrid
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,...
Christmas at HQ Eurocorps
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...
A new Belgian Senior National Representative
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...
Eurocorps Commander meets in Brussels the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy
Brussels – 21st November 2007. This afternoon, Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, paid a visit to the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, at the Council of the...
Distinguished visitors and media day
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...
Visit to the President of European Parliament
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.
Opening ceremony for Common Tenacity
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...
Snow turns Common Tenacity into a winter exercise
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...
CIS training at exercise Common Tenacity
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...
Visit to Chief of Staff Luxemburg 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...