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"Mr President, with regard to defence, the Council which is to be held in Feira on 19 and 20 June will work on the basis of the conclusions of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Fifteen Member States in the Azores and on the conclusions of the meeting of the Defence Ministers of the WEU Member States.
These proposals establish the principles of the common European security and defence policy as laid down in Helsinki, according to which, on the one hand, NATO will remain the basis for the collective defence of its members, and on the other, the European Union will take action only when NATO as a whole has not committed itself. Mr Javier Solana, High Representative of the CFSP and secretary-general of the WEU, personifies the ‘Natoisation’ of European defence.
For, unfortunately, we already know what the results of the Feira Summit will be. Europe’s common foreign and security policy will be brought into line with the desires of the Washington Government, through the good offices of NATO.
NATO, which was created in 1949 to defend Western Europe against Soviet imperialism, ought to have disappeared at the same time as the Soviet Union did, in 1991. By some extraordinary paradox, the opposite has come about. France, which left NATO thirty years ago, has now rejoined. The 50 000 soldiers of Eurocorps have been under NATO command since 1993, and above all, whilst NATO had done nothing for the people of Berlin, Hungary, Czechoslovakia or Poland, it engaged in a brutal and massive intervention specifically to destroy Serbia’s civil infrastructures, yet without thereby solving the problems of Kosovo.
The fact is that today NATO is, more than anything, an instrument for American domination of our countries. Here too, the means that were put in place a while ago are now being used against Europe: the 100 000 NSA agents, who spy on telephone and computer communications, and the relaunch of the Star Wars programme which will put an end to the balance of deterrence.
This desire to ensure the continuity of American domination in the field of defence, expressed by Vice-President Al Gore, is not in itself reprehensible from his point of view. What is serious, however, is the subservience of European defence to Washington’s policy, with the backing and the active participation of Europe’s political leaders."@en1
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