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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"1999-11-17"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Statement by Mr Solana2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.19991117.2.3-050"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:1999-11-17-Speech-3-0512
lpv:speaker	lp:John Walls Cushnahan2
lpv:spoken text	"The uncoordinated and therefore ineffective response of the EU to the crises in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo was a serious embarrassment. Thankfully, it would now seem that we are learning our lessons. This week’s discussions at the General Affairs Council are to be warmly welcomed. The intention to place the reinforcement of European security and defence policy high on the agenda of the Helsinki European Council is an appropriate one. The positive approach of a traditionally neutral country such as Austria to these developments is to be applauded and I urge all other neutral Member States, including my own, to follow their lead. Needless to say, I disagree with my Irish colleague, Mrs McKenna, because I believe that the establishment of an EU defence policy is as much an essential prerequisite of genuine European integration as the single currency. If you subscribe to one, you should support the other. Allied to these exciting developments is the emergence of a Franco-British proposal to establish a force of 40,000 by 2003 to cover all Petersberg Tasks on a permanent basis. Before I welcome this proposal, I wish to see removed the ambiguity that has arisen in the wake of the remarks made by the British Defence Secretary, Geoffrey Hoon, namely is it a Franco-British force or an EU force? If the EU is to act as one in the future then the force must be an EU one with components from all Member States who wish to participate, and operating on the initiative and under the political control of the EU. I look forward to the Helsinki Council endorsing this vital principle and other elements which will strengthen the EU’s security and defence role."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Fine Gael Party (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; EPP-ED (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Regional Policy, Transport and Tourism (1999-07-21--2001-07-09)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Cushnahan (PPE-DE )."1

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