WARSAW — NATO opened its doors to members from Central Europe in 1999, but the alliance’s military footprint made only the tiniest of toeholds in the region.
The headquarters of a multinational Polish-Danish-German corps is located on the outskirts of the city of Szczecin, just 10 kilometers from Poland’s border with Germany. Since 1999, it’s been the alliance’s only permanent presence in any of the countries that had once been behind the Iron Curtain.
But the lonely status of the Szczecin base is now changing. The NATO summit that took place in Warsaw over the weekend had the Atlantic alliance pledging to …read more
Source: European Voice