Preparing for civil war in Europe: FIEP, CoESPU, and EUROGENDFOR

For the time being, then, this intervention force is operating in the same way as in Jean Raspail’s novel The Camp of the Saints: against nationalists and in favor of immigrants.

Talk of NATO’s collapse and an American withdrawal from Europe is farcical nonsense. Not only do the United States remain committed to Europe’s external security—notably by shifting bases further east—but they are now also concerned with its internal security, which is gravely threatened by immigration.

1994–1996 – FIEP, a precursor to CoESPU initiated by Southern Europe

An association of gendarmeries from around the world, FIEP was founded thirty years ago by four major countries—France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal—from which it derives its name. Today, having become a leading entity in shaping the thinking of police forces with military status, it comprises twenty-one countries.

In 1994, faced with common delinquency and crime as well as a pronounced dual structure between police and gendarmerie forces, the military-status internal security forces of France, Italy, and Spain came together to found the very first association of European gendarmeries. Two years later, Portugal’s National Republican Guard joined the movement. The FIEP—an acronym derived from the names of the four countries—was then established.

Vicenza, Italy, frequently hosts key meetings and institutional bodies associated with the FIEP (the international association of Gendarmeries and police forces with military status).

G4 Summits: the founding Gendarmeries of FIEP (France, Italy, Spain, and Portugal) hold strategic meetings in Vicenza to coordinate European security and crime prevention.

The European-led FIEP still exists—and has even gone global—but it can be considered the precursor to the US-European-led COESPU.

2005 – CoESPU – European Military Internal Security co-led and co-funded by the USA.

COESPU was created because the United States began to realize that the internal security of its European NATO allies required a military-style response—likely due to mass immigration from outside Europe and Islamization—while simultaneously finding it difficult to integrate into a European-led alliance like FIEP.

Apart from their differing leadership structures, FIEP and CoESPU are similar organizations—namely, think tanks for security forces with military status—and like FIEP, CoESPU is based in Vicenza, demonstrating that CoESPU is indeed an extension of FIEP for use by the United States and NATO in Europe.

The Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU), established in Vicenza as a Carabinieri center opened to international contributions, is a center for advanced studies and a doctrinal hub, serving as a think tank and a training center, set up by Carabinieri in March 2005 as part of an agreement between the Italian Government and the G-8 Nations.

The CoESPU closely collaborates with the United Nations (specifically the UN Department of Peace Operations) and NATO COUNTERPARTS.

USA and the CoESPU

The United States partners with and heavily supports COESPU through the U.S. Department of State’s Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) to train international peacekeeping forces.

• CoESPU was proposed at the 2004 G8 Sea Island Summit backed by U.S. funding and Italian leadership to build global police peacekeeping capacity.

• The U.S. Department of State / GPOI serves as the primary financial and strategic sponsor via the Global Peace Operations Initiative.

The U.S. Global Peace Operations Initiative collaborates on training, operational concepts, and providing a U.S. military Deputy Commandant to the facility.

A U.S. Army Military Police (MP) or combat arms officer routinely serves as the facility’s Deputy Director/Commandant, reinforcing bilateral ties and joint peacekeeping training.

The founding members of FIEP are also key members of CoESPU:

ITALY – The Italian Carabinieri Lead, host, and provide the core instructional and administrative framework for the center at the General A. Chinotto barracks in Vicenza.

FRANCE – A National Gendarmerie officer is permanently assigned to Vicenza. The French representative participates in doctrinal discussions regarding public order maintenance and police units with military status

SPAIN – Spain’s Guardia Civil collaborates with CoESPU’s founding backbone—the Italian Carabinieri, French Gendarmerie, and Portuguese Republican Guard—through high-level bodies like the FIEP association and the G4 summits hosted in Vicenza. Spanish police experts and officials regularly participate in or co-host international training curricula, crisis management courses, and rule-of-law modules alongside CoESPU. Publications and journals from CoESPU frequently feature Spanish security models, such as the Guardia Civil’s environmental protection arm (SEPRONA), as benchmark frameworks for international stability policing.

PORTUGAL – Portugal collaborates closely with the CoESPU primarily through its national gendarmerie force, the Guarda Nacional Republicana (GNR). Portugal frequently holds high-level strategic and operational meetings hosted at or coordinated alongside the CoESPU hub in Vicenza. Portuguese military-status police officers and staff regularly participate in specialized modules at the CoESPU, such as international military police courses, common security and defense policy (CSDP) training, and advanced stability policing syllabi.

However, under U.S. leadership at CoESPU, many other European countries have joined—countries that do not all possess police forces with military status but are NATO members, and all face significant migration-related challenges.

SWEDEN – Swedish police personnel join international cohorts at CoESPU for programs like the UN Police Certified Instructors course.

NETHERLANDS – The Netherlands cooperate in broader European and transatlantic security architectures, such as the European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR) and NATO stability policing initiatives. Dutch military police experts take part in specialized courses, train-the-trainer programs hosted at COESPU. Leadership from the Royal Netherlands Marechaussee routinely engages with COESPU command in Vicenza, to align strategies on international police missions and peace-support operations.

BELGIUM – Belgian military representatives and defense attachés are collaborating with and visiting the Italian Carabinieri’s doctrinal hub to harmonize standards for stability policing and UN peacekeeping.

To give you an idea of these so-called UN stability and peacekeeping missions, here is a very telling example of what is likely actually being discussed at CoESPU: the joint deployment of the army and police in Brussels neighborhoods overrun by drug trafficking.

La Belgique annonce déployer l’armée à Bruxelles pour lutter contre le trafic de drogue.

GERMANY – Germany’s Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt) financially backs critical CoESPU training courses, such as global programs targeted at UN Police capacity building. German police trainers and subject matter experts regularly participate as tutors and advisors in international CoESPU sessions alongside multi-national contingents.

GREAT BRITAIN – Great Britain connects with the CoESPU through bilateral defense cooperation, international peacekeeping initiatives, high-level diplomatic visits, and shared legal frameworks like Cultural Property Protection.

British royal and official delegations have visited the CoESPU compound in Vicenza to observe Italian-led international police training and interoperability. Periodic visits by UK police and military delegations help foster cooperation on stability policing, joint doctrine development, and strategies against hybrid or transnational threats.

British experts and institutional writers have collaborated with CoESPU platforms to discuss legal milestones, such as the UK’s ratification of the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

Northern European countries do not have law enforcement agencies with military status; that is why they primarily contribute to humanitarian initiatives, such as the protection of children or cultural heritage.

The fact remains that if they are present in Vicenza, it is primarily to learn how to use and calibrate military force on their own soil and against their own population.

CoESPU provides the doctrine; EUROGENDFOR makes the resources available.

2007 – EUROGENDFOR the Operational Body of the CoESPU in Vicenza

The Core Concept of the EUROGENDFOR is a rapid-deployment force combining military structure with police duties. It was created in 2007, and guess where? The EUROGENDFOR operates in the same defense community ecosystem in Vicenza as the CoESPU and the FIEP.

EUROGENDFOR operates under mandates from international organizations like the EU, UN, NATO, or OSCE, and always requires an official invitation or consent from the host state. Headquartered in Vicenza, it is directed by a high-level interministerial committee.

Legally, EUROGENDFOR is an international organization established by a treaty between states, whereas CoESPU is an Italian national structure (managed by the Arma dei Carabinieri) that is open to international cooperation.

There is no organic legal link (no treaty, no status as an organ of the other, no subordination). The strongest and most concrete link is geographical and operational:

EUROGENDFOR has its permanent headquarters at the “Generale Chinotto” barracks, just like CoESPU. This co-location is no coincidence; it was intended from the outset to foster synergies between the two organizations.

This proximity enables informal yet regular coordination regarding doctrines, lessons learned, and operational concepts.

Despite the absence of a strong formal legal link, the two entities collaborate closely at the technical level and exchange doctrine and best practices. EUROGENDFOR benefits from CoESPU’s work and contributes to it.

The COESPU magazine regularly publishes articles written by EUROGENDFOR officials, and vice versa. Both organizations describe each other as key partners.

The European Gendarmerie Force (EUROGENDFOR) is composed of seven full member states, each contributing a national police force with military status.

France: National Gendarmerie

Italy: Carabinieri

Poland: Military Gendarmerie

Portugal: National Republican Guard

Romania: Romanian Gendarmerie

Spain: Civil Guard

The Netherlands: Royal Netherlands Marechaussee

Vicenza also hosts the NATO Stability Policing Centre of Excellence (NATO SP CoE). CoESPU is also a Centre of Excellence. Since “Excellence” is clearly code for “American,” it is evident that preparations are being made in Vicenza to deal with catastrophic scenarios of exceptional scale.

Conclusion

One must not be misled by the humanitarian and legalistic presentations—featuring corporate language peppered with buzzwords like “excellence”—of Vicenza’s military-police institutions.

Preparations are underway there for serious crises, threats, and existential violence—situations where it is known that police forces will not suffice.

Apart from an ethnic and racial crisis stemming from non-European immigration, it is hard to see what else it could be.

The threat is neither entirely external, since it operates within Europe’s borders, nor entirely internal, since it nonetheless originates from the outside—from Africa and Asia.

That is why hybrid forces—somewhere between police and military—are needed.

It is even possible that a single country’s gendarmerie forces would not suffice for it to cope; thus, something akin to NATO’s Article 5 might come into play regarding Vicenza—whereby if a member country is attacked… …

Immigration is an attack.

The outlook is bleak, but the worst part is that, right now, we do not know whom this intervention force will strike: immigrants or nationalists?

For the moment, we know that Captain Pierre Plas’s home in Spain was searched by the Guardia Civil at the request of the French government. We know that Xavier Poussard—the author of the book on Brigitte Macron alongside Candace Owens—was questioned by the Carabinieri pursuant to a letter rogatory from the French government…

For the time being, then, this intervention force is operating in the same way as in Jean Raspail’s novel *The Camp of the Saints*: against nationalists and in favor of immigrants.

FIEP : l’association des gendarmes du monde – Gendinfo, Gendarmerie nationale

La FGE, sécurité et défense communes – Gendinfo, Gendarmerie nationale