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The European Parliament has again adopted a resolution on European security and defence policy (ESDP), despite the fact that the Treaties do not even mention the name of this policy. Nevertheless, Parliament continues in its tiring attempts to bring about the creation of this policy in conditions that it set itself and which make its work virtually impossible. We therefore have no sympathy for Parliament for the difficulties that it is experiencing.
The first obstacle appears as early as Recital A of the adopted resolution, which states that the so-called ESDP must lend ‘credibility to a coherent common foreign and security policy (CFSP)’ which must serve ‘the global interest and universal values, as these have been expressed in the Charter of the United Nations’. There is no mention of the interests of Europe or its Member States. How can we expect people to take an interest in a policy which itself declares that it does not protect their interests?
My second point, which was illustrated so well by my colleague Mr Souchet in yesterday’s debate, is that we cannot draft a common policy in conjunction with countries that have different, even conflicting, visions of this policy. We must therefore break free from the rigid framework of the Community institutions and put variable geometry into direct action."@en1
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