Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-11-16-Speech-3-325"
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"Mr President, let me start by saying a few words to Mr Batten. It was interesting listening to this speech by a representative of a list of candidates that also includes two people who, in very quick succession, have been publicly found guilty of abusing the secretarial assistance allowance in recent weeks. We should intensify our offensive against this band of hypocrites in this House and in our public-relations activities.
Now to come to the point. It does not make sense for various companies in three major EU Member States to work on the Unmanned Air Vehicle project, for example, in separate projects that have nothing to do with one another, and to duplicate earnings, as it were. The European taxpayer does not deserve this. Nor does it make sense for three major EU Member States to develop, separately from one other, electronic identification systems for infantrymen, and for there to be insufficient clarity as to whether troops from one and the same European battle group, for example, could identify each other in action if they came from different countries. We should also bear in mind that even in 10 years’ time the armies in the EU will still have to use 23 different types of armoured vehicle. We can all imagine the kind of compatibility and supply problems that would entail in operational conditions.
I should also like to warn against one illusion, however: a single European Defence Equipment Market cannot be achieved if enterprises operating under market conditions have to compete with those that are government-backed. This is an aspect that has not yet been raised in today’s debate, and I should also like to suggest that it might make sense for Mr Wuermeling to take a closer look at this implication of the debate on Article 296 and draw conclusions from it for the future."@en1
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