EU seeks more prominent international role for European para-military police force

The European External Action Service is seeking 'strengthened cooperation' with the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF), a paramilitary policing organisation made up of forces from seven EU countries, in the hope that it can play a bigger role in the EU's 'crisis management' missions abroad and plug the gap left by a lack of commitments from individual Member States.

Statewatch: European Monitoring & Documentation Centre on Justice and Home Affairs in the EU (SEMDOC) http://www.statewatch.org/semdoc/

Statewatch: Search the Statewatch database http://database.statewatch.org/search.asp

ESO: Background information: The European Gendarmerie Force: a solution in search of problems? http://www.europeansources.info/record/the-european-gendarmerie-force-a-solution-in-search-of-problems/

Europarl: Parliamentary Questions: Information on the deployment of the European Gendarmerie Force, Eurogendfor, 17.06.13 http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//TEXT+WQ+E-2013-006998+0+DOC+XML+V0//EN

Website: European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) http://www.eurogendfor.org/

Wikipedia: European Gendarmerie Force http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Gendarmerie_Force

Global Research News, 29.06.14: The 'European Gendarmerie Force' Project: EU Creates Legal Framwork For 'Military Use' against its Citizens http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-european-gendarmerie-force-project-eu-creates-legal-framwork-for-military-use-against-its-citizens/5389037

The Quarterly Review, 26.01.13: EUROGENDFOR – policing sans frontières? http://www.quarterly-review.org/?p=1198

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