The Polish commander of Eurocorps, a multinational Nato-EU battlegroup based in France, has been dismissed and recalled to Warsaw to face a counter-intelligence investigation. 

The Polish defence ministry said the probe was to look at “the personal security clearance” of Lieutenant General Jaros?aw Gromadziński and gather new information about him. Warsaw said it notified its allies “in advance” and the dismissal caused no particular concern.

“There is no concern between us and the allies,” Polish defence minister W?adyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Polish news channel TVN24 on Thursday. He described the dismissal as a “serious matter”, but insisted that the investigation was so far only “a process of clarification” without detailing what had prompted it.