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This report has the virtue of recognising that funding under heading 4 (External Action) in the current financial perspective has proved insufficient. The budget solution it proposes, involving redistribution within this heading and between it and other headings, such as the Structural Funds, is, however, not entirely acceptable, particularly since the priorities for external action are, in the end, almost exclusively the common foreign and security policy (CFSP) and the common European security and defence policy (CESDP), to the detriment of the cooperation and development policy, which is practically forgotten in this report.
The basic idea that dominates here is that of a European Union that has been transformed into a political and military block supporting the strategy presented by the High Representative for the CFSP, together with the Constitution for Europe project arising out of the European Convention. We reject this idea. The rapporteur supports the communitising of the CFSP, the strengthening of its operational mechanisms and its financing, the creation of a rapid intervention force – the European army, the financing of defence equipment within the ESDP, and the creation of an EU foreign ministry, in support of a strengthening of the EU’s presence in the world and its response capability in the fight against terrorism and diverse military threats. We therefore voted against this report."@en1
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