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Mr President, in the light of what is happening today, it is difficult to assert that European intervention in the Western Balkans was a resounding success. In order to bring stability to what a German publication eloquently called the ‘restless Balkans’, help was needed from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. The bottom line is that NATO is not there for nothing. I am still to some degree reassured by the fact that NATO is still there, and still, too, involved in the European ALTHEA mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina. The fact is that this whole operation, which we call ‘European’, is founded upon trans-Atlantic cooperation on the basis of the ‘Berlin Plus’ accord between the European Union and NATO. What brings me to this conclusion is the letter of 9 November from the Dutch Presidency to the parliament of the Netherlands. If anything, the ALTHEA mission is something for Europe to be modest about. Moreover, I am convinced that it also puts another big question mark against the idea that a European security and defence policy is useful and necessary. Such an ambition for power can only eventually weaken or undermine NATO, and then, Mr Nicolaï, to use a Dutch expression, all of us in Europe are far from home."@en1
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