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"en.20030312.1.3-043"2
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"Mr President, the worldwide confrontation on the subject of Iraq between two concepts of international relations is splitting Europe in two. The crisis is dispelling our illusions and bringing us face to face with reality again. It is reminding those who had forgotten it that the nation states are still the actors in diplomatic and strategic affairs, that they can, of course, when their interpretations coincide, act effectively together on an inter-governmental basis, and that the European Union is not a political entity. If Europe has a real presence in this crisis, it is not thanks to the mechanisms of the CFSP, but to the political will of a certain number of European states. The most determined supporters of the US vision are European, as are its most articulate opponents.
The Convention will therefore have to learn certain lessons from this return to reality. No-one should continue to imagine that an all-purpose common foreign policy can be imposed by means of majority constraints. That would be to opt for the alignment of Europe rather than for its independence. The CFSP must adjust its ambitions to fit the reality. It should assist in harmonising national diplomacies where they are in agreement, and it should let them act separately when that is not the case, and it should never again seek to replace them with artificial and unworkable pseudo-consensus, because that would be acting against the interests of Europe."@en1
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