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I only need make one final, general remark. I sensed quite a lot of frustration in many of the contributions reflecting the lack of clear decisions with binding effect and the lack of effective instruments to enforce respect of human rights in the world.
Some of it almost had an air of extra-territoriality, even coming close to unilateralist language. We have to take care and stay faithful to other values that are important for our self-esteem and our project. We have to remain multilateralist. And when addressing these difficult issues no short-cut is possible.
When the poor from the Third World look at us in Europe – even if they do not understand the figures, this illustrates their image of us – they see that every cow in Europe gets two euro per day in subsidy. Over there, 1.2 billion people live on less than one dollar a day. More than half of the population in the world gets less than two dollars per day.
This is not to move away from the core theme of this debate, but when we talk about perceptions and how this world sees itself, we have to keep it in mind. Everybody talks about the international society. We do not have one. We are trying to create one. This is where we have a good case for being Europeans at this time. We have to combine that with the issues we discuss here."@en1
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