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"Madam President, I would like to thank Baroness Ashton for her statement and Mr Brok for his report. As many have already said, our debate is taking place against the background of the most difficult economic, social and political crisis the European Union has experienced. Another consequence of this is that government offices in Europe have insufficient time and energy remaining to tackle the many pressing foreign policy problems. Europe’s far too sluggish reaction to the terrible events in Syria and our far too rapidly declining interest in the democratic transformation of North Africa are just two examples of this. Another example is the very slow development of our delegation office in Tripoli.
Europe not only lacks time and awareness; it also quite simply lacks money. The financial crisis is bound to have an impact on the budget of foreign ministries as well as the European Parliament budget. In this situation, we must set clear priorities, as must you, Baroness Ashton. In addition to better use of synergies at the European level, for us this can only mean moving away from the often very expensive reaction to escalating crises and moving towards more conflict prevention. After all, civil conflict prevention is the cheapest and most effective means that we Europeans still have at our disposal. However, we have not used this potential enough up to now and our trade, fisheries, agricultural and development policy must finally become conflict sensitive in order for them to assist in preventing conflicts instead of fuelling them. Effective structures are still lacking for this. At the same time, we must strengthen the structures that have just recently been established in the External Action Service for conflict prevention and conflict mediation and broaden their expertise in EU foreign policy as a whole.
Another very promising approach is the idea of a European Institute for Peace. The Committee on Foreign Affairs will discuss this idea next week with the Swedish foreign minister, Carl Bildt. In this regard, I hope for your support and look forward to your answers."@en1
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