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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, the safety of workers and citizens must be guaranteed in defence manufacturing processes, and the companies themselves must operate as efficiently as possible. Clear rules on defence procurement are therefore required.
European citizens must be made aware of the importance of having modern and efficient defence firms, within the innovative SME structure, working with technology for civil or military use. Moreover, there must be strategic coordination of existing defence companies in various Member States, with the European Agency acting as one of the focal points for technological innovation and for perfecting the products and processes of European firms working in defence-related sectors.
In any event, we must never allow a military-industrial complex to be set up in the Union’s Europe which would restrict political powers, the kind of complex whose powerful influence General Eisenhower bemoaned when he left the US Presidency. Contracts must be transparent. Clear and transparent rules on defence procurement can help a great deal in this regard.
Otherwise, the market will become concentrated on these companies, thereby, in practice, blocking free competition in the European internal market. There is similarly an urgent need to encourage small and medium-sized enterprises to take part, as far as possible, in the defence industry’s global manufacturing process.
Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Commissioner, I should like to conclude by saying that the EU needs to maintain constant links between its external policy and the rules on international trade, with particular regard to embargoes. In the future, nobody will understand why defence companies in the EU would support the outbreak of unjust wars or prop up dictatorial regimes. This is not what Europe was originally set up to do and nor is it what the EU should be doing."@en1
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