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"Mr President, it has been an interesting debate. We have heard plenty of good sense in the course of it, as one would anticipate. I shall be mercifully brief. I do not want to come between Parliament and its preprandial democratic duty. However, there are a couple of points I should like to make.
Firstly, there was some discussion about the sort of institutional arrangements that we need to make, not least in the Commission, to cope with the responsibilities of adequately implementing a common foreign and security policy and, in particular, to ensure that we can play our own role in the non-military aspects of conflict prevention and crisis management. We need our own crisis units in the Commission, but we should keep that small. I want to make it absolutely clear that I have no intention of duplicating within the Commission the sort of structures which are necessarily going to be created in the Council.
Secondly, Mrs Lalumière spoke very pointedly about the importance of taking decisions much more quickly. I am bound to say that is one of my obsessions. It is one of my obsessions in relation to, for instance, MEDA regulation and in relation to the Balkans. We brought forward a new regulation for speeding up our delivery of assistance to the Balkans. We have made proposals about asymmetric trade measures for the Balkans, which are now being considered by the Council and, in due course, will be considered by Parliament. We have made proposals for cleaning up the Danube. Those are all areas where we have brought forward proposals. I hope we can get quick decisions. Unless we can take decisions more quickly, before crises happen, then the question of how quickly we take decisions when crises have actually broken will come up a great deal more frequently. So in my judgement the importance of taking decisions more quickly is one which is relevant at every stage of our activities. The sooner we face up to that the better, not least for the credibility of a common foreign and security policy.
Once again I thank the honourable Member for her superb report. I can only imagine the amount of work that went into it. All of us know the amount of wisdom that went into it as well.
I have received two motions for resolutions pursuant to Rule 42(5) of the Rules of Procedure.
The debate is closed.
The vote will take place on Thursday at 12 noon."@en1
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