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This report on the progress made on the implementation of the CFSP comes at a time when Europe is totally absent from the international stage! What a paradox!
Yet Europe is still displaying the same stubborn desire to ignore the reality, which is that today, one State is making great use of its colossal power to impose its hegemony.
It is true that the attitude of the United States toward Iraq, for example, is regrettable.
However, it is also the expression of a constant in geopolitics, which is that international relations are primarily determined by States whose behaviour is a result of a free appreciation of their vital interests.
Europe’s problem is that it is faced with a nation which, while already disproportionately powerful, furthermore benefits from the elimination of the great European diplomatic corps. European integration, far from providing added value, leads to a levelling down of diplomatic corps, which maintains the imbalance between powers.
The communitarisation of a virtual CFSP would therefore be a serious historic mistake: it would further restrain the Member States, while the freedom of our nations, in the field of foreign policy as well as other policies, is what makes Europe independent; this excludes neither cooperation between countries nor freely discussed and agreed coordination of their policies."@en1
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