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"Mr President, Minister, Commissioner, honourable members, it is quite right to make crisis management the main objective of European foreign and defence policy. After all, crises all over the planet are the predominant issue at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Of course, the current state of the world and the intricacies of the international system also raise other issues and questions which, in my view, form an integral part of the issues and problems which need to inform a specific proposal on European foreign policy.
I should like to congratulate Mrs Lalumière because she has taken a huge step forward in her report. Not only has she made specific proposals, she has also highlighted the need to find a modus operandi and a modus vivendi for all the means proposed in order to implement European foreign policy. The problem with a European foreign policy is not quantitative. There is no problem with the figures. It is qualitative. The problem lies in the content. Having said this, may I suggest, Minister, that we act with the greatest caution when it comes to questions such as the integration of the Western European Union or relations with ΝΑΤΟ.
I, fellow members, shall insist above all on the need to find a system, a modus operandi for all the proposals tabled in the House. Because foreign policy nowadays cannot and must not merely be the product of simple intergovernmental cooperation. On the contrary, it must be derived by operating a multi-dimensional structure and system within which the parliamentary aspect plays an important part."@en1
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