Dhekelia
includes Dhekelia Garrison and Ayios Nikolaos Station
connected by a roadway
Europa Island
defense is the responsibility of France
European Union
In November 2004, the European Union heads of
government signed a "Treaty Establishing a Constitution for Europe"
that offers possibilities - with some limits - for increased defense
and security cooperation. If ratified, in a process that may take
some two years, this treaty will in effect make operational the
European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) approved in the 2000
Nice Treaty. Despite limits of cooperation for some EU members,
development of a European military planning unit is likely to
continue. So is creation of a rapid-reaction military force and a
humanitarian aid system, which the planning unit will support.
France, Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Italy
continue to press for wider coordination. The five-nation Eurocorps
- created in 1992 by France, Germany, Belgium, Spain, and Luxembourg
- has already deployed troops and police on peacekeeping missions to
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, and the Democratic Republic of
Congo and assumed command of the International Security Assistance
Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan in August 2004. Eurocorps directly
commands the 5,000-man Franco-German Brigade, the Multinational
Command Support Brigade, and EUFOR, which took over from SFOR in
Bosnia in December 2004. Other troop contributions are under
national command - commitments to provide 67,100 troops were made at
the Helsinki EU session in 2000. Some 56,000 EU troops were actually
deployed in 2003. In August 2004, the new European Defense Agency,
tasked with promoting cooperative European defense capabilities,
began operations. In November 2004, the EU Council of Ministers
formally committed to creating thirteen 1,500-man "battle groups" by
the end of 2007, to respond to international crises on a rotating
basis. Twenty-two of the EU's 25 nations have agreed to supply
troops. France, Italy, and the UK are to form the first three battle
groups in 2005, with Spain to follow. In May 2005, Norway, Sweden,
and Finland agreed to establish one of the battle groups, possibly
to include Estonian forces. The remaining groups are to be formed by
2007. (2005)
Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) defense is the responsibility of the UK
Faroe Islands
defense is the responsibility of Denmark
French Polynesia
defense is the responsibility of France
French Southern and Antarctic Lands
defense is the responsibility of
France
Georgia
a CIS peacekeeping force of Russian troops is deployed in
the Abkhazia region of Georgia together with a UN military observer
group; a Russian peacekeeping battalion is deployed in South Ossetia
Gibraltar
defense is the responsibility of the UK; the last British
regular infantry forces left Gibraltar in 1992, replaced by the
Royal Gibraltar Regiment
Glorioso Islands
defense is the responsibility of France