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"Mr President, I supported the report, but I wonder if the European Union has the ability to work to promote peace and stability in our neighbouring countries, by which I now mainly mean Syria, Libya and Egypt.
Our actions in Libya will show the actual state of our security and defence policy. The EU’s main objective in Libya is to protect the civilian population and to support the attempts by the Libyan people to establish a democratic society. Memories of the Balkan countries in the 1990s are still fresh in our minds. Then, Europe had to rely on help from the United States of America. Libya has, in any case, shown that the EU is not a military power: our actions have been dependent on the independent initiatives of the Member States.
The examples in North Africa make us realise now that the EU’s need for military preparedness and capability at the gates of Europe remains a fact. The External Action Service has been in operation for more than a year: we can now expect some results from it."@en1
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