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"Like the report on ‘the role of NATO in the security architecture of the EU’, this report (and resolution) reasserts the objective of affirming and consolidating the EU as a political and military bloc with an offensive nature, in partnership with the US and within the framework of NATO.
Among other important and enlightening aspects, this report and resolution reasserts the offensive and global concept of NATO, considering that ‘the updated ESS [European Security Strategy] and the future NATO Strategic Concept should be mutually coherent and that this should be reflected in the Declaration which will be adopted by the NATO summit in Strasbourg/Kehl in April 2009’. It actually goes even further as it ‘calls for the setting-up of an … EU Operational Headquarters’.
In the end, the report and resolution constitute a real denunciation, not that this was its intention, of the militarisation of the EU and of the so-called ‘Treaty of Lisbon’ which institutionalises this militarisation.
Those in Ireland who denounced and therefore rejected the militaristic nature of this proposed Treaty, the ratification of which would mean further militarisation of international relations, a continued arms race, and more interference and war, are right.
Those in Portugal, like the Portuguese Communist Party, who, in rejecting this Treaty, have demanded that a referendum and wide national debate should be held on its extremely serious consequences for Portugal, Europe and the world, and for peace, are right."@en1
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