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"In the report adopted today concerning the Common Foreign and Security Policy, Parliament expresses a number of views about the direction it would like this policy area to take in the future. On the basis of several of these views, I have felt compelled to vote against the report.
In today’s EU, there are a number of countries which are neutral, including Sweden and Ireland. By adopting Amendment No 2, calling for mutual-assistance obligations laid down in the Western European Union treaty to be incorporated into a future European constitution, Parliament has declared that it does not respect these countries’ positions and wishes to force them to give up their neutrality. That conflicts with, for example, the accession agreements signed by these countries when they became EU Member States.
The majority of Parliament also expresses the view, in Recital I, that the foreign and security policy should be a common policy. On the basis of previous positions, this must be understood as indicating a desire for the Community method to be used and for Parliament to be given the right of co-decision. I believe this to be an unrealistic and undesirable development.
Paragraph 19 also makes what I consider to be an insufficiently substantiated demand for a European armaments agency."@en1
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