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"Mr President, 11 September will go down in history. It will create a new framework for our daily lives and our political work. The subtitles on CNN have read ‘America at war’ for a long time now. Europe has been there. Europe has been at war. Europe has experience of being a theatre of war. The United States has helped us in the past, and we in turn must therefore, of course, help the United States now. However, Europe also knows that wars are not won with weapons alone. Conflicts cannot be prevented with weapons. Wars cannot be won with weapons alone and, above all, peace cannot be built with the aid of weapons alone. It may be the case that weapons are necessary, but we must be clear that other things are also required.
I should like to highlight two things that are necessary to the European agenda. The first is the urgent proposal we are debating at present. It is regrettable that it is only now that we are debating such a proposal. I wish to endorse what other speakers have said. I should like to emphasise that there is, of course, a reason why we are only discussing the proposal now. Far too many people have too many financial interests in this matter. There are too many people who do not wish to reveal what is in their hidden accounts. That is why it has been impossible for Europe to do anything before now, and it may well also prove quite difficult now. The second thing I want to say is that, if we do not gather grassroots support for further European cooperation, we shall lack the communal spirit needed to stand firm against terrorists."@en1
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