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"Mr President, Baroness Ashton, I should like to express the unequivocal support of the French delegation of the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and our unequivocal support for the very fine compromise negotiated by Mr Brok, Mr Verhofstadt and Mr Gualtieri.
Indeed, this is an important milestone in the creation of a common European policy in areas as sensitive as foreign affairs, security and defence. Every day, from Georgia to the coasts of Somalia, from the Balkans to Gaza, we can clearly see how much this common policy is needed and also – I was going to say above all – how much our citizens want it. Because, above and beyond the interinstitutional powers which we are welcoming today in this compromise and, in particular, the increased role given to Parliament, we must clearly emphasise the strategic opportunity represented by this External Action Service, which is an essential tool for equipping the EU with a more ambitious, more consistent, more credible and more effective common foreign and security policy.
Baroness Ashton, may I say to you, as Chair of Parliament’s Subcommittee on Security and Defence and also, to some extent, as a Frenchman, that I insist on the particular responsibility which you will have to exercise, that of crisis management, by preserving and strengthening the EU’s unique character and added value, in other words, its civil-military capabilities – the two words go together. You are the one who will be responsible for ensuring that the EU maintains and increases its capabilities by rejecting the ill-founded suspicions that are voiced here and there – and indeed sometimes in this Chamber – to the effect that the service will be militarised, and by joining with Parliament as much as possible in clearly affirming the legitimacy of any operations conducted by the EU in crisis locations."@en1
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