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"en.20051117.14.4-110"2
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This report is a further step in the process of militarising the EU, which the rejected ‘European Constitution’ attempted to enshrine. The report addresses one of its fundamental pillars, namely the development of the military industry in the various Member States.
The aim is to help the ‘European’ armaments industry and what is referred to as its ‘inevitable’ concentration process. In other words, the report sets out clearly what is at stake, explaining that 6 of the 25 Member States account for 90% of armaments purchases. How much, then, is being produced?
The report leaves no room for doubt. Its aim is to take arms policy out of the hands of the Member States, or rather, certain ‘small’ States, and gradually to set up a ‘European defence market’, in ‘accordance with accepted NATO standards of interoperability’. To this end, it calls on the (‘large’) Member States and the large armaments firms to set aside their differences, arguing that steps should be taken to ensure that ‘defence procurement is covered to a larger extent by European Community legislation rather than by national legislation’ and that ‘a restrictive interpretation of national security interests is appropriate’. All of which will be under the ‘leadership’ of the so-called ‘European Defence Agency’.
This is the arms race at its best. Hence our vote against."@en1
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