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"The monotony of these annual reports is equalled only by their limitless optimism. At a time when, in relation to the conflict in Iraq, Europe has shown itself incapable of choosing between, on the one hand, the uncompromising submission to the imperatives of US foreign policy desired by the representatives of the ‘young Europe’ and, on the other hand, the policy of independence initiated by the representatives of the ‘old Europe’, how, indeed, can we accept the invitation of this report and dare to produce an assessment of the CFSP in 2002 that is positive overall?
Let me be perfectly clear: even if I consider that it is sometimes applied in a questionable way, I do not by any means condemn US foreign policy, or at least the basics of it. What I deplore, on the other hand, is the blindness of the European federalists who, rather than draw lessons from the crisis, stubbornly persist in going down a blind alley by hoping to seize upon the Iraqi precedent as an ‘opportunity and a challenge finally to establish Europe as a foreign-policy performer of substance’.
Such failure to understand the workings of high politics and such a denial of geopolitical realities are signs of new and serious disillusion to come."@en1
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