Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-09-05-Speech-2-060"
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"We have abstained from voting because the aims of the report are unclear.
On the one hand, it contains a large number of proposals for improving operations in the EU’s present offices abroad. It is also established (in paragraph O) that the purpose is not to create a single diplomatic service for the EU to replace the foreign services of the Member States.
On the other hand, the whole enterprise smacks of efforts progressively to do precisely that, namely to create veritable EU embassies as a stage in the process of transforming the EU into a superstate. This impression is powerfully reinforced by paragraphs P, 13 and 15, in which the talk is precisely of EU embassies, of coordinated EU representation in, for example, the UN and of Member States which so desire arranging for their diplomatic missions to be combined with the EU’s delegations.
Because we are in favour of practical improvements to the existing foreign operation, but absolutely opposed to the EU’s beginning to behave like a superstate in the world around, especially by stealth, we have no option but to abstain from voting."@en1
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