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"Mr President, I would like to welcome to the table Parliament’s opinion and strongly support its adoption, because I see that this positive vote will be an important moment in the establishment of the EAS and it will be a clear important signal that the new service is receiving the democratic endorsement of this Chamber.
This decision will also be an appropriate reflection of the important role that the European Parliament has played in the discussions over the new service. I have to express my high appreciation of the intensive work Cathy Ashton, the High Representative, has done over the last few months. It is not every day that we establish a new service. Even though it was difficult, it was complicated, we have managed to reach a political consensus in seven months since the new treaty came into force, which is, I think, a remarkable achievement.
I think this is a testimony to the fact that Cathy Ashton achieved a very solid balance when she proposed the decision for the first time, but the decision as it was drafted needed to go through this democratic scrutiny process, and I think that the process was a very thorough one. If I look at the discussions we had in the quadrilogue with Miguel Moratinos, the Members of this Parliament, the rapporteurs Brok, Verhofstadt and Gualtieri, and us on the side of the Commission, I can tell you that we looked at every possible article and at every possible provision. We were always looking for the best possible solution and I really think that we have achieved it.
In particular, the debate focused on three areas. The first one was how we can ensure that EEAS will be a fully-fledged part of the EU system. We have discussed this very thoroughly, and I think that we will achieve it and have a truly European External Action Service. The second very important issue was how to secure appropriate financial accountability. Here, again, we have been looking at all the possible options and I am sure now that even though we are going to create something new, where there will be three sources for the people who will work for the External Action Service, we will have all the appropriate financial accountability safeguards built into the system and I am sure that the system will weather the test of its future operation.
The last big part of the discussion focused on development aid: how to manage it appropriately, how to keep the communitarian spirit of development aid and how to secure this Parliament’s right of democratic scrutiny. Again, I think we put a lot of ingenuity and thinking into the work, a lot of creative solutions, and I think that we have found a solution which will bring the best possible synergies. We can bring in the expertise of the Member States, expertise from the Commission, in-field contacts of our delegations, and I am sure that with this synergy, we will be much more efficient when representing the European Union abroad.
I am looking forward very much to supporting the Commission’s consent to this decision later this month and I can assure you that the Commission will do its utmost to cooperate very closely with the High Representative, with the Council and with Parliament to complete the process, finalising the issues on financial regulations and staff regulations, and to complete the budgetary process. I am already looking forward very much now to the efficient and excellent work of the External Action Service as from autumn of this year."@en1
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