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"Mr President, the EU’s interest in the export of arms is clearly part of the increasing militarisation of the EU in the post-Lisbon era.
Tony Blair himself told journalists just days ago that he wanted to see the EU develop a ‘military character’. A big part of this will be who the EU gets its weapons from and who it sells those weapons to.
There is already talk that equipment produced for the EU army will not be interoperable with American equipment. The crazy notion of the British sharing an aircraft carrier with France would lose Britain access to US stealth technology overnight.
It would also close the UK market to American imports and close the US market to British exports, destroying jobs on either side of the Atlantic.
Defence exports are worth GBP 7 billion a year to the UK economy, that is the same as we pay to the EU in net contributions every year. We should oppose all such moves."@en1
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