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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance, to which I belong, I would like to give a warm welcome to both these reports and, above all, to express my gratitude for the constructive cooperation. There is one item in the Council’s Common Position that I would like to highlight.
Mr Brok’s report is most emphatic in demanding active cooperation with Parliament. It will not be enough for us to be merely informed, and that after the event. I say that in advance of the debate on the Constitution. The European Security Strategy is not a matter of statistics. As threats change, we will be required, again and again, to ascertain where there are deficits – as there are today in the civil sector – or where we need to change direction, but we will be able to get it across to people that European security policy is credible, and communicate to them the positive aspects of it that the Constitution will strengthen, only if you work together with Parliament. If Parliament opposes you, you will not manage it.
I can tell you that there are substantial indications that we are on the right road, such as the attempt by three European states to join with Iran in finding a peaceful solution to the proliferation issue, and the endeavour to reinforce the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, for it is on these things that our multilateral policy depends.
The second of these indications – and one to which reference has already been made – is that international law is being applied. Those in this House who oppose the Constitution on the grounds of alleged militarisation are thereby ignoring the fact that it incorporates the Charter of Fundamental Rights, which will therefore form part of Europe’s foreign and security policy; they are also negating all the progress we have made, throwing us back to Nice, throwing us back to the sort of renationalisation that we are currently seeing in Germany, which believes it will be given its own seat on the UN Security Council, or that it will, on its own, be able to get the China embargo lifted. That is not a common European security policy; it is a reversion to a policy that we, in our motions for resolution, criticise rather than endorse.
We Europeans are stepping out in new directions by taking on civil and military responsibilities. The decisive moment will come, in the foreseeable future, in Kosovo. We will be able to make use of these instruments, which will ultimately help to reconcile societies to some degree and to stabilise Europe, only if we, along with our societies and the European public, carry on in the same direction towards the one peaceful and multilateral objective with the help of transatlantic cooperation, an objective that our people expect of us. You, who represent the Council, will have to pay attention to what this House says; without its support, the peoples of Europe will not be behind you either."@en1
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