BRUSSELSThe leaders of France, Germany, Belgium and Luxembourg called on April 29 for a European command headquarters to be set up to coordinate a new EU military force independent of NATO.But after a controversial defense summit of the four countries - which were all opposed to the U.S.-led war in Iraq - French President Jacques Chirac and his partners stressed they did not want to undermine the U.S.-European alliance.The call for a European defense force was issued in a joint statement by Chirac, Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Luxembourg Pr...
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