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"Mr President, High Representative, ladies and gentlemen, you, Mr Solana, have spelled out – and in an intelligent manner – just where the war zones are and where Europe’s interests lie. Let me give you just a couple of examples: there is the Middle East, there is Kosovo, there is Iran, there is the energy security issue and a number of others. We must now, however, consider how things are to move forward. For a start, we will, in many of these areas, achieve nothing as the soft power that we claim to be if we do not, on foreign policy matters, speak with a firm and single voice to the end that we influence our partners around the world, and I am thinking here particularly of the trans-Atlantic relationship.
Secondly, we will get nowhere if we treat the European Union as being made up of zones with different degrees of security. On the energy security front, we have to make sure that every country enjoys the same level of protection, but it is no less intolerable that any one part of the European Union be less protected by an anti-missile shield.
To put it another way, issues such as these cannot be discussed on a bilateral basis; on the contrary, it must be made clear that its Constitution endows the European Union with enhanced capacities and enables it to speak with one voice, and, speaking with that one voice, we must in turn be prepared to guide NATO towards strategic debates. Not by separate solutions, but only by these two in tandem, will we gain influence. I sometimes get the impression that there are those who – and rightly – demand solidarity for themselves in energy matters, but those who do that must also be forthcoming with the same solidarity in other areas if we are thereby to arrive at a common European position. That is the only way in which we have a chance of survival in this world."@en1
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