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"Mr President, earlier today Mr Solana stated that the European Union needs to be a global actor. Consolidation of the common foreign and security policy is therefore required and the constitutional crisis is certainly not helping matters. Cohesion cannot, however, be achieved entirely through common institutions. It is achieved mainly through common political will. A great deal will therefore depend on the personal actions, good judgment and creativity shown by Mr Solana and Mrs Ferrero-Waldner in the course of this year.
Mrs Ferrero-Waldner has also promised a special communication the European Union’s energy security energy. In addition, Mr Brok’s report refers to the need to draft a strategy for energy security. In fact, these are only half-hearted solutions/stop-gap solutions. What the European Union actually needs is for us to set ourselves the goal of creating a genuinely common policy on energy security. Only then will it be possible to prevent situations like the one that arose two years ago, when Russian suppliers held Belarus to ransom or the one at the beginning of this month when Russia was blackmailing Ukraine. Central European Member States were also affected. Do we really want to be subjected to blackmail of this kind in the future and do we really want to freeze like people are freezing in Georgia right now? The only alternative is a common European Union energy policy.
Another point I would like to make is that our policy towards Russia should be modified. There is scope for criticism of the lack of progress in certain areas. Two of the latter are referred to in Mr Brok’s report, namely problems concerning human rights and arms reduction in the Kaliningrad region. The list should actually be much longer, and include a common solution to regional conflicts, notably in Transnistria and the Southern Caucasus, along with the whole Kaliningrad package."@en1
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