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"en.20031023.2.4-096"2
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"This report is supposed to justify putting in place a common foreign policy and military force in Europe, the claim being that this will guarantee European security.
The only recent wars in which one or more European countries have been involved – those in Iraq, Afghanistan and Côte-d’Ivoire – have all been bandit wars against countries that it would be ridiculous to claim threatened European security. Whether the European powers conducted them together or separately, these wars were not at all intended to defend the EU’s population but to protect the interests of its propertied classes.
Moreover, the report may decline the word ‘multilateralism’ in every European language, but it remains no less the case that these are the mutterings of small imperialist powers to whom the main power, the United States, leaves no other choice but to fall into line behind Washington or take refuge in impotent sulking.
The near break-up of the European Union in connection with the war in Iraq is no accident. It shows to what point the European Union is a motley collection of states with conflicting interests in a great many areas.
We reject the ‘basic choices’ described by this report and to be implemented not in the interests of the people but in opposition to those interests."@en1
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