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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to thank Mrs Lalumière for a very erudite report. I want to focus on two matters. The Union’s management of civil crises has not progressed; the conflicts are by nature social, economic, intellectual, ecological and ethnic. In all of these, preventive civil crisis management is a better approach than the military option. My fear is that a rapid armed reaction force will be used more and more often instead of civil crisis management, and more and more rapidly. The European flag is not to be promoted by means of a tank but by social equality, and therein lies a difference of principle. I suggest that we organise as effective a rapid reaction civil crisis management centre as has now been planned. Then we will be acting in accordance with priorities and our own philosophy.
My other fear is the involvement of states in NATO that do not wish to be involved. There is one solution that might make the situation easier here: involving Russia in crisis management. It is likely that Russia will often be either party to or otherwise connected with the crises we will one day have to face. It is also known that President Putin does not take a categorically negative view of these crisis management forces, which I think means there are opportunities for cooperation, and when we know what type of crises we are dealing with, this for me would be an additional factor in achieving a balance in the process as a whole. It would also make it easier for the nations of Europe to understand the whole issue."@en1
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