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"Mr President, last month we celebrated Europe Day. Central to this was Robert Schuman’s speech of 9 May 1950. A lot has changed since then, but Robert Schuman’s and Jean Monnet’s basic axiom to the effect that a lasting peace is created by weaving peoples and nations together in mutually enriching dependence is still valid. Security is created through cooperation pure and simple, as well as through integration and enlargement.
Schuman began his speech with these words: ‘World peace cannot be preserved without constructive efforts to combat impending dangers’. This far-sighted approach permeates the Socialist Group’s vision of Europe’s foreign and security policy and is also a persistent theme in Mrs Lalumière’s report on the eve of Feira, a report which our Group supports wholeheartedly.
For Social Democrats like ourselves, there are two complementary dimensions to the challenge of security policy in the twenty-first century. The first is the global dimension, and the second is the purely European dimension. Seen in a global perspective, security is clearly indivisible. We share the same planet and the same fate. In today’s globalised world following the end of the cold war, poverty and exclusion stand out as the main enemies of peace and democracy. No military arsenals and no new nuclear arms race can provide security against the resentment of the poor. Generous, fair and far-sighted aid, together with a trade policy which attacks the causes of poverty and insecurity must therefore be an integral part of our foreign and security policy. In the same way, we must look at conflict prevention and crisis management in the context of our new European security policy.
We are, of course, loyal to the decisions taken in Helsinki. We should constructively develop the military capacity which the war in Kosovo, in particular, has necessarily brought about. The headline goals which have been established are important and must be implemented in full, without delay and without exception. At the same time, we must, however, oppose those who wish to exaggerate our military capacity and role. We should accept increased responsibility for security on our own continent, but we should not take the place of NATO or create an embryonic form of permanent and independent European defence. Such ambitions are pure fantasy and mere tilting at windmills.
A policy on conflict prevention is missing from our arsenal. We must therefore actively support the proposals tabled by Commissioner Patten and also by the Council, together with the proposals in Mrs Lalumière’s report."@en1
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