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Nordic Battlegroup Completes Recruitment

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(B2) Sweden has just finished recruiting its troops (1) for the Nordic Battlegroup 2011, announces the Swedish army. For approximately 1600 positions in the Battlegroup (and 150 in the strategic reserve), it thus received a total of 5.250 candidates (who
often applied for 2 or 3 positions).

The Nordic battlegroup will be on call for the European Union in the first half of 2011. It will be made up of 2000 soldiers from five countries: Sweden, Finland, Norway, Estonia and Ireland. Sweden ensuring the role of framework nation by providing the majority (1600) of the soldiers.

Would you have made a good recruit? Do you have the right reflexes? Test yourself online on the Swedish army recruitment site. Confusing!

(1) The Swedes practice a contracting policy for external operations.

(Photo credit : Alexander Karlsson/Forsvarsmakten)

Nicolas Gros Verheyde

Chief editor of the B2 site. Graduated in European law from the University of Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne and listener to the 65th session of the IHEDN (Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale. Journalist since 1989, founded B2 - Bruxelles2 in 2008. EU/NATO correspondent in Brussels for Sud-Ouest (previously West-France and France-Soir).

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