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In relation to the institutional organisation of the common foreign and security policy (CFSP), the Brok report is typical of the European Parliament’s traditional positions: it pushes the CFSP as far as possible towards communitarisation, in particular calling for “a common, though not single, European diplomacy” (paragraph 12), qualified majority voting in the Council (paragraph 14) and the transfer of the post of High Representative for the CFSP to the Commission (paragraph 11).
These proposals are the result of a desire to impose on Europe an abstract concept of a federal State, and not a considered understanding of practical realities. The common foreign and security policy cannot draw its strength from artificial Community procedures. It can only draw its strength, if necessary, from the support of the nations. It must therefore be based on those nations, which means: maintaining the coordinating role of the Council; unanimous decision-making, or otherwise variable geometry; the instruments must fall within the responsibility of the Council and not of the Commission.
If the Convention meeting under the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing wants to be effective, it must remain lucid by resisting federalist bombardment."@en1
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