General PITARCH addresses the European Parliament

Brussels, 5th May 2008.

The Spanish Lieutenant General Pedro Pitarch, Eurocorps Commander, has addressed for the first time the European Parliamentarians in the European Parliament in Brussels. The speech of general Pitarch took place by request of the German Parliamentarian Karl Von Wogau, President of the Subcommission of Security and Defence, who visited the Headquarters of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg last 16th January.

Eurocorps Commander emphasized the role of the European Union as global actor and declared that “Europe constitutes our common future”.

Among the subjects treated by general Pitarch it is to highlight the importance that for the European Defence has the development of the concept of Reinforced Cooperation and Permanent Structured Cooperation in the Treaty of Lisbon, the need of significant advances in the European Common Security and its complementariness with the NATO, the credibility and legitimacy as main values of Eurocorps because of his experience and participating nations, as well as by his system of decision making, and the increasing interest of the European Nations in Eurocorps, with the desire of Poland to increase substantially its participation and the new joining requests of Italy and Rumania, as well as the U.S.A.

 

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