A company of armored personnel carriers and one of Leclerc tanks of the French army will arrive in Romania at the end of October, to complete the technical means of the NATO Battle Group (Battle Group Forward Presence) deployed in Cincu, in the center of Romania, the Defense Ministry has announced. The group was established, starting in May, by transforming the allied multinational elements within the NATO Response Force deployed in Romania. At the proposal of Paris, France took over the role of the framework nation of this Battle Group which also includes, by rotation, forces from Belgium and the Netherlands. On Tuesday, the President of Romania, Klaus Iohannis, welcomed, on Twitter, President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to strengthen the French military presence in Romania. It is an important move for NATO’s Eastern Flank, a sign of Allied solidarity, Iohannis said.
