Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-09-Speech-3-241"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Security and defence – priorities and deficiencies2
dcterms:Language	"da"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030409.5.3-241"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-09-Speech-3-2422
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, what we ought to talk about today is how we are to guarantee European security and how we are to secure a secure future for us all. What we have seen, particularly in recent years and on 11 September, is that security is not brought about through building up armaments. It might be said, rather, that the opposite is the case for, if there is any country on this planet that has been well equipped militarily, it is the United States which, specifically, became the victim of a terrorist action on 11 September. The military hardware it had built up did nothing to prevent that terrorist action. The swing to the right throughout the United States in this area must not, for heaven’s sake, end up infecting thinking on European security policy. There is a complete lack of proportion, both globally and in the EU, between the investments made in military hardware and our investments in genuinely sustainable security. The problem is that Mr Morillon’s report does not seek to alter this disproportion, and that is one of the reasons why I do not want ultimately to support it, in spite of the fact that many of the ongoing analyses concerning the need for a European identity in these areas are constructive and sound. If, however, that identity is to consist in our copying something that has already proved to be useless and powerless, then we shall have taken a wrong turning. That is not an expression of pacifism, for I believe that a people must be entitled to defend their own rights, and I also believe there may be situations in which military power must be used in order to preserve the peace. The threat we are facing does not, however, come from something we can fight using military hardware. It comes first and foremost from the desperation of people in a very unjust world, and that should instead be the focus for our priorities."@en1

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