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"Mr President, divisions have emerged within the Council over the choices made this week but, if we care about having a Europe which is politically influential, we have to look to the future and work for the Europe of the future. Europe has to have a single foreign policy and a single defence policy, to take a leading role on the international stage and to be able to guarantee peace outside its borders. We will have to achieve this objective during the second half of this year and, in this connection, I must reply to the disagreeable words spoken by Mr Watson, who clearly knows little about and has difficulty recognising what it means to be pro-European. Clearly, as far as he is concerned, being pro-European means always saying yes, but if we sometimes say no, we might build a better Europe. It would be an extremely grave political error not to heal the present divisions. The Italian Government’s statements which move in this direction certainly give us hope, and I believe President Prodi will be in agreement with the Italian Prime Minister when he meets with him in Rome on Friday.
The strong, influential political Europe of the future cannot, however, be created with an anti-American stance. It is appropriate to point this out in this Chamber for there are still those in Europe who place the greatest western democracy and Saddam Hussein’s despotic, criminal regime on the same level. The killer’s name is Saddam Hussein; we cannot and must not adhere to the slogan: ‘Neither Bush nor Saddam’. When Europe has rediscovered the reasons for its strong unity, it will have to participate directly, under the aegis of the United Nations, in the construction of the new Iraqi democracy, once it has assisted with the humanitarian needs, the result of a conflict which Saddam Hussein could have avoided by accepting his proposed exile, mentioned several times by Mr Pannella. It must be a Europe which has relations with the moderate Arab countries, which strives for the security of Israel and for the construction of a new Palestinian state: in short, a Europe which guarantees peace in the Mediterranean and in the Middle East."@en1
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