Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-04-09-Speech-2-152"
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"Mr President, a nation has resources such as a police force, its own currency and an army. There are no practical reasons to justify the EU’s now wanting to have these resources at its disposal. Cross-border crime could be combated through Interpol. Instead, Europol is to be the launch pad for a European FBI. The essence of currency union is not a common coinage for international trade, but the ban on national currencies which will lead to common economic government. Moreover, the purpose of the Rapid Reaction Force is not just that of peace-keeping, for that can be done through the UN and the OSCE. The ill-concealed agenda is the desire for a common EU military which in time will be able to supersede NATO. The EU is to be a state with a common police force, currency and military.
My group has another vision for Europe. We want a Europe of democracies in which independent countries cooperate on everything we cannot manage individually, but we do not want to see the EU developed into a new superpower with a superpower-style military. The EU is the world’s strongest trading block. It includes powerful countries which have been colonial powers in the past. It is not certain that people elsewhere in the world see us in terms as peaceful as those in which we see ourselves. For the sake of peace too, it is better that we be satisfied with the UN, the OSCE and NATO instead of constructing a new military power."@en1
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