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"Mr President, allow me to start by echoing the congratulations by my fellow MEPs for the excellent report that Mr Brok has presented again this year. However, I have to add that I am very interested to find out how the report would fare next year, for just when the common foreign and security policy is being further detailed, it is meeting with enormous new challenges.
The events of 11 September and subsequent events greatly impact on that policy. They will put it to the test. It is too early to gain a complete overview of the new security framework and the new threat. However, we would like to ask the Council and Commission to produce an initial evaluation as soon as possible. This evaluation should also touch upon the question to what extent the pillar structure forms an obstruction to effective action in the new situation. External policy has become internal policy, and vice versa. The European Union is not sufficiently prepared for this at this time.
Conflict prevention and crisis management have taken on a different aspect. Our approach is often still too regional and too geographic. Horizontal issues must now be thrown into the spotlight. Increasing use must be made of regional policy in an integrated manner to tackle terrorism and international organised crime which are interrelated in many ways. The guiding principle in this should be to help each other. Take countries such as Ukraine. They form part of the problem which we are now facing because the lack of transparency in countries such as those, forms the ideal breeding ground for all kinds of crimes, to put it mildly. We have too little control over this because we have not sufficiently developed this kind of cooperation.
Maybe we have focused our attention too much on the Balkans. That region, too, is a source of security problems, but anyone who studies the ‘map of evil’ will realise that the new secondary routes of drugs, arms, illegal immigrants, etc. traverse the Slav Commonwealth.
I am pleased that rapporteur Brok insists on a more effective implementation of EU strategies. There is more cause for this than ever before."@en1
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