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"Mr President, in his report, Mr Wuermeling maintains that the discussion is not about foreign, security or defence policy in general, but only about the procurement of goods and services. However, there is of course a link between defence procurement and defence policy. Together with the setting up of the European Defence Agency, a common market for defence procurement is a further stage in the military rearmament eagerly welcomed by the European defence industry.
On the pretext of increased economic efficiency and a reduced burden for European taxpayers, the rapporteur argues in favour of harmonisation and standardisation in accordance with accepted NATO standards. If that is not a contribution to the debate on defence policy, I do not know what, in fact, it is. For me, it is clearly about increased and intensified militarisation. Using George Orwell’s newspeak, I could say that war has become peace.
Instead of all the talk about increased resources for research and development into new weapons, the EU and the Member States should invest their resources in research into peacemaking and conflict resolution. I believe that this is something that the EU really must do. It is through disarmament and demilitarisation that we build peace, not through further militarisation and the acquisition of more weapons."@en1
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