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"Recent events in North Africa and Asia show that the European Union needs to strengthen its foreign policy and the alliances in which it participates. The threat of terrorist attacks, which is still very real, points to the need to strengthen European security standards. However, some of the proposals set out in the Gualtieri report are unacceptable. They run counter to the strategy which has been pursued up until now, aimed at building international alliances based, for the most part, on the assumption that the North Atlantic Alliance will play a leading role. The proposed strengthening of the European Defence Agency would not mean a genuine increase in the level of security in the EU, but merely the creation of another bureaucratic monster, incapable of performing the tasks assigned to it. Who would take the decision to mobilise European armed forces? Whose interests would their units be acting in? How much of a say would the new Member States have? Would the EDA’s headquarters be relocated? Fears have also been voiced regarding institutional matters, such as whether growth of the EDA would not result in a reduction in the size of certain Member States’ armies, and whether there would be a clash with the remit and objectives of the European External Action Service. As can be seen from previous reports, in spite of substantial financial investment and very good logistics and management, European forces could not cope with simple police missions in Kosovo and Bosnia. We should perhaps give some thought to how to improve their operations before encouraging them to extend their duties to include military actions."@en1
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