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"(SV) Mr President, the Greens believe that non-violent methods of solving conflicts must play a much greater role than military intervention during the 21st century, and that any force which
under exceptional circumstances, become necessary should only be applied following a UN mandate.
We envisage an important role for the EU as a non-violent civilian peace maker. For this reason, we regret that the German presidency did not follow the European Parliament"s recommendation to the Council to carry out a pilot study for a European civilian peace corps. We are also worried about the resolutions of the meeting in Cologne which have been interpreted around the world as important steps towards militarising the EU. The Swedish government has been forced to say that if more steps are taken in the same direction, a veto would have to be lodged. The Finnish presidency has requested clarification as to whether the Cologne resolution means that the EU would only be able to intervene following a UN mandate, or whether the EU, like NATO, would be entitled to take the law into its own hands.
Joschka Fischer now states that the resolutions taken in Cologne do
imply a militarisation of the EU, which all sounds very nice. But why then are Poettering and Goerens, who are now in the vanguard for a militarisation of the EU, so satisfied? Why is the WEU military alliance integrated into the EU? Why, according to the resolutions taken in Cologne, is the EU to create a military commission, a military council and other military institutions? I really do hope that Joschka Fischer is serious when he says that the EU will not be militarised, which would reunite him with the Greens" fundamental principles of non-violence. As a non-violent civilian body, the EU is indeed able to play a very important positive role. Were we, however, to become a military superpower competing with other superpowers for world hegemony, the EU would only contribute to power struggles, chaos and warfare, which I sincerely hope will not be the case."@en1
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