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"Mr President, first of all, I want to thank Elmar Brok and Roberto Gualtieri, who were co-rapporteurs and who have also conducted the negotiations with Mrs Ashton, with the Commission and with the Council.
The service has now been established, and I think that we can say that we have a good result that all the institutions can support and be proud of. I say this despite the remarks made yesterday by the French Prime Minister, Mr Fillon. He said that the service cannot go beyond certain red lines: the red lines of France. I have to say to Mr Fillon: ‘
’ – you are too late, because with this agreement on the service, we went far beyond the red lines of France. This was no accident, but simply the full use and implementation of the Lisbon Treaty. It is foreseen in the Lisbon Treaty, which has been ratified by France, to pool foreign policy in the future in the Union.
What we need is not
over the service, as the service is now there. What we need now is to use the service to develop a real EU foreign policy because – let us be honest – until now we have not had a real EU foreign policy at all. I remember when I was a member of the Council in 2002, we spent all of 50 seconds on the Iraq War, which was, at that time, the biggest foreign policy issue. Europe at that time was not capable of discussing it, or of having a common position on it. We must not repeat that, certainly not in the multipolar world of today. Continuing like that is not an option.
It will be up to Mrs Ashton, and that is our message today. The service will need clear direction and will need leadership. The treaty has given Mrs Ashton many powers to do this. She has the right to convene a Foreign Affairs Council, even at short notice. She has the power to take initiatives because she is also Vice-President of the Commission. She also has the responsibility to produce the general guidelines setting out the strategic interests of our Union, and all of these responsibilities fall on her and her service.
Mrs Ashton, allow me to give you one piece of advice at the end of this whole process of negotiation: develop the service as a Community instrument. The Union’s successes have been built on the tried and tested method which is the Community method. Only where the Community method is applied have we made progress and had success. Look, for example, at the single market. Where it has not been applied, we have had stagnation and even regression. Look, for example, at the Union’s response to the financial crisis. It is only through this method that we can succeed.
It will be through the formulation of what I call a real ‘Union interest’, free from Member State interference, that a foreign policy of the Union can be developed. It is by using the skills and expertise that you will have at your disposal that this real Union interest will be identified. It will then be for Mrs Ashton to defend naturally this Union interest because, in my opinion and the opinion of this Parliament, what is good for the Union is good for its Member States and is also good for its citizens."@en1
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