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"en.20021107.4.4-059"2
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The tragic events of 11 September 2001 provide yet another opportunity to address the subject of Echelon: even though on this occasion the system showed its extraordinary ineffectiveness in the only field that could have justified its continued use – security and the fight against terrorism – a certain amount of confusion over type is leading the Commission and Council to pretend they believe that the answers to the problems are essentially technical and can be solved within the context of the CFSP.
The problem, however, is political – the umbilical cord between NATO and European security, defence and information systems – and the CFSP does not exist, and, moreover, will only ever be able to make its point through silence, because, although we all fiercely oppose terrorist barbarity, we are not, however, all prepared, on the pretext of economies, affinities or an absence of any alternative policy, to place ourselves fully in the hands of the United States in the field of defence and foreign policy. That is where the problem lies, and this is not, therefore, a matter of cooperation in the field of security, which obviously goes without saying. That is why the French delegation of the UEN Group voted against this useless text."@en1
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