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"Mr President, the global strategy is meant to update and replace the European Security Strategy, and the challenge for the High Representative/Vice-President is to make it more strategic, thereby helping to make the people of Europe safer. Whilst I thank Ms Kalniete, I think this Parliament’s report, in total, only partly helps to do this. It is right to identify genuine shared foreign policy interests and the new challenges. My own Group has properly focused our amendments on the concept of human security and on the need for further arms control. We stress the international diplomacy necessary to sustain efforts for global climate action, and we reiterate that there is no solution to the challenge of international migration without the first emphasis being on conflict resolution and international development.
Tonight I want to argue that we should not fight shy of Berlin Plus defence cooperation, which cannot, and must not, be deliberately misrepresented as a European army. Those who seek more ambition for EU foreign and security policy must also recognise that this encompasses more ambitious EU security cooperation. Why shouldn’t Europe be ready to undertake peacekeeping if a permanent peace could be established in Syria or even in the Palestinian territories? Surely recent attacks have removed any excuse against greater cooperation in counter-terrorism and intelligence-sharing.
Tonight we have heard from some who insist that this can only be achieved through institutional change, and others who resist it altogether. I simply say that this can be done in full complementarity for the EU countries which are also members of NATO. But inside or outside NATO, it does require a commitment to improve capabilities, and that is an issue of political will in Europe’s national capitals to improve our individual – as well as our collective – response, not in EU institutions alone. Strategies are about words. They can be good words, but they have to be good words that lead to good action and to better outcomes. That is the ultimate test of Europe’s new global strategy."@en1
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