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“European Union battlegroups (EU BGs) are military forces of 1500 combat soldiers under the control of the European Union. There are currently fifteen, mostly multi-national groups who rotate actively so that two are ready for deployment at any one time.

The battlegroups reached full operational capacity on 1 January 2007. They are based on existing ad hoc missions that the Union has undertaken and has been described by some as a new “standing army” for Europe.[1] In 2004, Kofi Annan welcomed the plans and emphasised the value and importance of the battlegroups in helping the UN deal with troublespots. [Source: European Union Battlegroups - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]

A discussion about these battlegroups and their possible uses is underway at MilitaryPhotos.net.

In another EU related thread at MilitaryPhotos.net they are discussing the massive constitutional changes introduced under the radar by the Lisbon Treaty, these include:

1. It establishes a legally new European Union in the constitutional form of a supranational European State.
2. It empowers this new European Union to act as a State vis-a-vis other States and its own citizens.
3. It makes us all citizens of this new European Union.
4. To hide the enormity of the change, the same name – European Union – will be kept while the Lisbon Treaty changes fundamentally the legal and constitutional nature of the Union.
5. It creates a Union Parliament for the Union’s new citizens.
6. It creates a Cabinet Government of the new Union.
7. It creates a new Union political President.
8. It creates a civil rights code for the new Union’s citizens.
9. It makes national Parliaments subordinate to the new Union.
10. It gives the new Union self-empowerment powers.