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"Mr President, I believe that the rapporteurs, Mr Šefčovič and, in particular, Baroness Ashton, have produced a very good draft report. My group has unanimously taken note of this and will vote in favour of it tomorrow with complete conviction.
Of course, it is now a question of ensuring that some governments give the diplomatic service a chance, quite apart from the fact that the French Government now has problems which are very different from the red lines. They should get rid of their red lines, because this is not what it is all about. Many of the citizens of Europe are concerned that there will be too much diplomacy in Europe. However, we are not talking about doubling the size of the diplomatic service, but about strengthening it. Therefore, some governments will have to reduce their diplomatic services in parallel with the development of the European Union diplomatic service. That is the purpose of these measures and we fully support them. It will result in the individual governments giving Baroness Ashton and the diplomatic service a major opportunity.
I hope that the Belgian Presidency will be the first Presidency to take up this opportunity and give Baroness Ashton its total support, naturally, in consultation with the foreign minister and the foreign ministry. We need to put more Europe into our foreign policy."@en1
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