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European gendarmerie

01 November 2003

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Italian defence officials have said that the EU and Italy will be forming a European gendarmerie - an out-of-area police force - that could have its first unit ready in 2004. Representatives of 22 European countries attended a joint exercise in November in Italy with the eventual aim of creating a military police force designed to maintain public security in trouble spots, particularly in the wake of an overseas EU military intervention. The Rome exercise was first planned by the Carabinieri as an all-Italian affair but was later opened to other European police forces and the Police Unit of the EU council. Defense News 8.11.03 (Tom Kington)

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