 EUFOR former Commander General David Leakey
 Soldier of the EUFOR participating in operation Spring Lift, as part of Althea The EUFOR or European Union Force is an international military force under the supervision of the European Council. It is best known for operation Althea; their current involvement in Bosnia and Herzegovina to oversee the military implementation of the Dayton Agreement. It replaced the NATO-led SFOR on the 2nd of December 2004. The EUFOR is led by the Political and Security Committee, and the civilian implementation of the agreement lies in the hands of the Office of High Representative. The efforts of both are coordinated by the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana. Image File history File links Eu_army. ...
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The European Council, informally called the European summit, is a meeting of the heads of state or government of the European Union, and the President of the European Commission. ...
General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, i. ...
NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
Pocket badge of the SFOR The Stabilisation Force (SFOR) was a NATO-led multinational force in Bosnia and Herzegovina which was tasked with upholding the Dayton Agreement. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
The Common Foreign and Security Policy or CFSP was established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union in the Maastricht treaty of 1992, and further defined and broadened in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997. ...
The High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, with the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was created in 1995 immediately after the Dayton Peace Agreement to oversee the civilian implementation of this agreement. ...
The Common Foreign and Security Policy or CFSP was established as the second of the three pillars of the European Union in the Maastricht treaty of 1992, and further defined and broadened in the Amsterdam Treaty of 1997. ...
Javier Solana Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga (born July 14, 1942 in Madrid, Spain) is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU). ...
EUFOR has around 7,000 personnel from 33 countries, mostly from the countries of European Union. There are additional troops from other European countries and also some from Canada and elsewhere. As of 2005, this is the biggest purely European military operation.
EUFOR's commander is currently Major General Gian Marco Chiarini, having taken over command from the British Major General David Leakey in a ceremony held in the Butmir Base on the 6th of December 2005, where David Leakey handed over the EU flag to Major General Gian Marco Chiarini in presence of key personalities of the European Union, such as Javier Solana and General Sir John Reith. The forces are subordinate to the EU via a strategic level headquarters established at NATO's Headquarters Allied Command Operations, under the deputy to the Supreme Allied Commander, British General Sir John Reith. Although both these officers were British, they operated in an international capacity on behalf of the EU. Major General Arundell David Leakey CBE (1952-)is a British military commander. ...
Javier Solana Francisco Javier Solana Madariaga (born July 14, 1942 in Madrid, Spain) is the High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and the Secretary-General of both the Council of the European Union (EU) and the Western European Union (WEU). ...
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 - June 16, 1971), later Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting. ...
Supreme Allied Commander is the title given to the most senior commander of some multinational organisations. ...
John Charles Walsham Reith, 1st Baron Reith (July 20, 1889 - June 16, 1971), later Sir John Reith (1927-), then Baron Reith (1940-) established the British tradition of independent public service broadcasting. ...
 Troops from different countries attended the handover ceremony The EUFOR will assume all the missions of the SFOR, but the chase for war criminals, notably Radovan Karadžić, former leader of Republika Srpska, and Ratko Mladić, their former military leader, will be a mission for both the EU and NATO. Image File history File links Eufor_handover. ...
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Radovan Karadžić Radovan Karadžić (Радован Караџић) (born June 19, 1945) is a former Bosnian Serb politician, poet and psychiatrist indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague. ...
Official language Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian Note: The Constitution of Republika Srpska avoids naming the languages, and lists the languages of Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats. ...
General Ratko Mladić during UN-mediated talks at Sarajevo airport in 1993. ...
NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. ...
The EUFOR will also have police duties (The Times) against organised crime, which is believed to be linked to war criminals. The EUFOR will collaborate with the European Union Police Mission in Bosnia (EUPM) and with the Bosnian police. European Union Police Mission is European Unions mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina that aids the local police organizations. ...
In fiction In the computergame Battlefield 2 (EA Games) an add-on (BF2 Euro Force) is available that enables players to play as EU Forces.
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