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"Mr President, we evidently need major disasters to illustrate how much a too fragmented Europe is still failing in its ability to shoulder responsibility.
The coalition against terrorism will not function properly if the central player, the United States, is surrounded by only fifteen satellites. Unfortunately, the European Union has in certain ways still not outgrown the satellite stage. That particularly applies to the second and third pillars, which are precisely pertinent when we consider international terrorism.
Wherever matters are regulated well at community level (the first pillar), things are much better. In other words: Europe is good at paying, but not good at making decisions. That was evident in Bosnia and is now again evident in the fight against international terrorism.
The Union is often not very visible, and I am also delighted that Mr Verhofstadt has explained how seriously he has taken the irregularities that have taken place on this score in Ghent. That is why we are happy to encourage the Council to give Europe a clear profile in terms of foreign and security policy as soon as possible. Moreover, the willingness to make the necessary Community changes in terms of justice and internal affairs is also leaving something to be desired.
I am pleased to hear from the President-in-Office of the Council that there is wide agreement among the Heads of Government about the fact that measures must be taken. Reprehensible, however, are the improper objections which are being lodged by some Ministers for Justice, for example, the Minister in the Netherlands, about Europe’s interference in major issues at national political level, such as, in respect of, the policy of tolerance with regard to drugs, the policy on euthanasia and such like. That is not at issue at all. Mr Vitorino, too, has made it abundantly clear that he is closely monitoring subsidiarity on this score.
If the aim of the Ministers is to protect their own official or ministerial scope, then the public will not be served by that. I would therefore like to warmly congratulate the Council with its statement that our policy to the outside world, also in the framework of globalisation, must be ensconced in ethical, social and ecological standards and must take account of Third World interests."@en1
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