Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-07-07-Speech-3-341"
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"Mr President, it is a positive thing that the European Parliament is getting a certain amount of say over the European External Action Service. The first measure of Parliament’s control will be the budget and, in all other respects, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy will have to be accountable to Parliament. That would, in fact, be the perfectly normal thing to happen in a democratic system or in what a democratic system ought to be. However, we must not raise false expectations amongst the citizens of the European Union. We might have a European diplomatic service now, but if Member States do not have any common vision on foreign policy, that service will obviously remain, in large part, an empty shell. I would therefore call for realism, but I fear that we are not all on the same wavelength here, particularly after finding an article on our Parliament’s website whose title translates as ‘European Parliament introduces new diplomatic service to bring it closer to its citizens’. Unfortunately, no explanation was given as to how exactly that is going to happen, but it is precisely this sort of hollow propaganda that is turning more and more people in the European Union against it."@en1
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