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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, the three rapporteurs, Mr Wuermeling, Mr Romeva i Rueda and Mr Kristovskis, have addressed important fields that need to be considered together to a much greater extent, rather than in three separate reports like this, as they are only outwardly contradictory, and are in actual fact connected.
We live in a world in which the threat posed by terrorists, who could also potentially come by dirty weapons, is more dangerous now than ever before. Assuming that Iran cannot be prevented from producing nuclear weapons – it is already producing rockets with a range of 3 000 km – we shall have a region that extends over Iran, Pakistan, India, China and Russia: one large region – the largest in the world – that is in possession of nuclear weapons.
We have to consider how to guarantee our security as a small corner of the world. This can only be done via collective security within the transatlantic alliance, which also means that Europe cannot leave this alliance, as that would mean we were susceptible to blackmail: on various grounds and by various regions of the world.
Secondly, we have to make clear that only by producing our own arms will we, too, be in a position to set a course in industrial policy, that this will create jobs, and also that it will give us independence because, if this industrial-policy approach is not open to us and we do not have our own arms industry, we shall be reliant on purchases of additional arms from other regions of the world. This will make us constantly susceptible to blackmail, since we cannot do what we want or, consequently, make a contribution to our own security. At the least, it will be very much more expensive, because we shall not be making use of the synergies that this European approach provides.
The European Union and the Commission need to be given more money for research and other fields, therefore, to ensure that we are in a position to guarantee our own security and to form alliances whilst having independence and immunity to blackmail.
All of this must be integrated into a code of conduct, which would lend credibility to our fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In my view, this code of conduct should be legally binding. Yet more desirable in my opinion would be the deletion of the Treaty derogation exempting arms exports, unlike all other trade, from the competence of the Commission – which is one of the weak points both with regard to control and with regard to the capacity for action of the European Union as a whole. The relevant approaches to this should be sought.
Therefore – in order to save money, guarantee the security of our citizens and at the same time ensure a more peaceful world – I would invite us to increase the focus on this."@en1
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