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"Madam President, I would also like to greet Baroness Ashton, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, who honours us today with her presence. This is my first speech, and I would therefore like to greet all my fellow Members in the European Parliament. I wish to comment briefly on the creation of the EU’s common foreign policy. Having a common, stronger voice in our foreign policy is certainly a good thing, but it cannot diminish the importance of the foreign policy of the Member States themselves, or its flexibility or independence. We have to ask: who does the EU represent if it is not the Member States? Again, we have to ask: who do the representatives of the Member States represent, if the EU represents them? It must be a basic principle that structures are not created twice over and that the Union’s structures do not swell needlessly. That is so, especially because it is very questionable as to whether the citizens of the EU in general also desire integration in the area of foreign policy."@en1
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