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"Mr President, the EU has half a billion inhabitants, and this number of people is not negligible in world politics. The USA has only 296 million people.
The EU has all the potential to be a great power, as we have been for years in the economic and cultural field. Yet in the political field, we have not yet lived up to our potential, because Europe often remains divided, even when common action would be more efficient. Europe already has a phone number, but it has no real common voice. The CFSP and the ESDP are currently non-visible policies from a political point of view.
Whether we like it or not, a common voice means that we will need greater foreign policy and defence policy coordination. Common policies like that go right to the heart of the matter of national sovereignty, but what members get in return for parts of their national sovereignty is greater influence in world politics. That is why I welcome President Van Rompuy’s initiative and why I encourage the Council to continue the coordination it began last weekend, and eventually to broaden and deepen it. Emotions must not deter us from our goals, as you said."@en1
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