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"At times, it is said that when the European Union cannot create a policy it creates an agency, and this is the risk that we are facing: tackling military and defence policies from a business and competition perspective. If, then, we act from a European protectionist standpoint, the risk is even greater. The objective should be to draw up, as Europe, an innovative security and defence policy promoting stability and peace and opposing dictators: this should be our policy. The rapporteur mentioned the need to control the export of arms to third countries, and I am thinking in particular of dictatorships. This type of control is not being carried out at present in Europe: on the contrary, we are giving arms to dictators the world over.
Another point regards civil expenditure. The European Union is not doing enough about this; indeed, it is doing almost nothing. The Commission maintains that we must not copy the United States. Of course, but so as not to copy the United States, it would mean seeing if we could convert our military expenditure and structures into civil expenditure and structures, which could, perhaps, complement – not compete with or be an alternative to but complement – those of the United States."@en1
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