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We are today discussing the report on the external performance of the European Union in 2003. I am especially pleased that the rapporteur, Mr Brok, has stressed that the involvement of the European Parliament should not be limited to a discussion after the event. I am therefore taking the liberty of considering in particular some matters that have been on the agenda in the past year and of taking a look at the future. The development of the European security strategy, which is also up for discussion here, will have an important part to play in this. The Kuhne report – and I commend the rapporteur – gives an excellent evaluation of the concrete impact of this security strategy to date. I would like to ask the Commission but also the Council and of course the High Representative to take these recommendations very seriously. There are two points I would like to highlight.
Firstly, there is the military dimension. Europe can only play a central role if we are also willing and able, if necessary, to take military action. The prevention of conflict escalation to the point where military intervention is necessary is and remains the prime concern, while when it comes to the actual use of military means the emphasis must continue to be placed on interaction with other tools: humanitarian intervention, the guaranteeing of legal order, the institutional structure, democratisation and economic development. In the first major European military mission, the Althea mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina, an abundance of experience is currently being acquired with such a combination of civil and military capacity. Apart from a material side, the development of the European defence arm also and in particular has a political side. The European Union must develop a political framework that allows us to use military means where this is considered necessary.
My second point is about the interfaces between internal and external security, which come very much to the fore in the struggle against terrorism in particular. The connection between them is insufficiently developed in European policy at the moment. The Council has rightly asked the High Representative to bring forward proposals in this area and I urge him to involve Parliament in this. Attention to this is sought in the Brok report but also in the Kuhne report. The implementation of the common foreign and security policy is not unfortunately always as common as I would like. Nevertheless, my evaluation of the past few years is not all that negative. The European Union has played an important part in the revolution in Ukraine. The prompt reaction of the Presidency and the good coordination between Parliament and Council, and the action of the High Representative and the Heads of State of Poland and Lithuania made a significant contribution to the positive outcome of that political crisis.
The efforts of France, Germany and the United Kingdom within the EU in the conflict involving the Iranian nuclear programme has in my view so far been a good example of how things can be tackled in a European way. The outcome is uncertain but the diplomatic approach, the model that is being used in this process, is very important in our view. The basic principles of European common foreign and security policy, multilateralism, preventive involvement, a broad approach in which democracy and social and economic development take centre stage, conflict resolution and a halt to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction have our full support in the rank and file. We cannot emphasise enough, though, that collectiveness is a condition, because only by acting collectively can Europe bring its political weight to bear."@en1
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