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"Madam President, Baroness Ashton, I would like to take up your final remarks regarding added value. We need to develop for ourselves a clear strategy on the issue of how Europe will fit into the new world order. If we do not do that – if we do not know where we want to position ourselves – we will only ever act reactively. We often conduct foreign policy like day-to-day politics, barging in unprepared, and often we operate merely reactively with these issues. That is also linked to the fact that – in addition to the shortcomings that we still have in the European Union – the Member States are often unwilling to cooperate. Listening to some of our British colleagues here, it appears that they have yet to comprehend the added value of working together and that no European state is able to improve their position in the world single-handedly. This needs to be clear. We want to have a common position not only in terms of consular services, but also with the large strategic tasks. How are we in a position to integrate the transatlantic community, also with the inclusion of South America, to point to one strategic concept? What about the relationship with Asian development? We also need to make clear that a preventative approach is the right one to take, Mr Van Orden. We champion our interests together, and only by working together are we in a position to enforce these. It is necessary, however, that we do this while considering human rights, justice and social equilibrium in this world. In North Africa, we have seen all too often that stability alone is not the solution. Stability only exists where it is linked with law, human rights and social justice. Only in this way can we elevate our position in the world order. We need to work harder together to carve out this overall strategy. It is not an overall strategy if each of the 27 foreign ministers hurries to Tahrir Square together with a camera team to show that they themselves invented the Arab Spring. That is not an approach which can be used to take Europe forward."@en1
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