Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-15-Speech-3-033"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-05-15"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Transatlantic Relationship2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20020515.2.3-033"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-05-15-Speech-3-0342
lpv:speaker	lp:Pernille Frahm2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; Delegation to the EU-Poland Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-06--2004-04-30)3 unknown; Socialistisk Folkeparti (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-chair; EUL/NGL (1999-10-13--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, I too wish to concentrate on the relationship between the EU and what Mr Patten calls the “super-duper power”, namely the United States. As far as I am concerned, there is no doubt that the United States is aiming to achieve total global military dominance – something which it probably already possesses. The question, then, is what role the EU is to play in relation to the United States. Are we to be the United States’s puppy or a group of fully paid-up yes-men who cheer the US on whenever it wants us to? The second possibility is that we tag along as competitors, and that is what we shall do if we launch ourselves into an arms race or suddenly embark upon an attempt to match the United States’s military capacity. The third possibility is for us to choose a quite different role, namely that of being the civilian and global power that can intervene before crises arise and before weapons become necessary. What we see as primary in the case of the United States is the capacity and need to solve conflicts with the aid of military power. They have this capacity and need because, in my view, they are quite unable to conduct a proper foreign policy, that is to say a sustainable foreign policy capable of forestalling crises and preventing war. The EU, on the other hand, has demonstrated an ability to maintain multilateral contacts and so also has the ability to lay the foundation for a more sustainable foreign policy. That is the best prerequisite for a civil security policy, and we are therefore better placed than anyone to become that particular civil and global factor. Mr Elles’ report does not make for encouraging reading, and I understand that the Commission gave it a mixed reception, but I do not understand the desire to throw all but the first of the EU’s options overboard and turn the EU into the United States’s puppy."@en1

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