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"The international situation has recently been changing ever more rapidly. The rising economic importance of Asia, the revolutionary movements in Africa, the increased terrorist threat, the need to establish joint and sustainable European raw materials strategies and ever more frequent violations of human rights are just a few of the problems with which EU diplomacy has to contend today. Experience has taught us that it is powerless in many cases. The European Union’s foreign policy appears to be poorly thought-out and poorly coordinated. Furthermore, the idea of joint and sustainable European policies has lost out on more than one occasion to the interests of the largest countries of the ‘old’ EU. A perfect example of this is the lack of a rule ensuring geographical balance when filling posts in the European External Action Service. This system needs to be changed, and it was for this reason that I did not support the Muñiz De Urquiza report. I believe that it identifies key conditions which the EU and the Member States should meet in order to be able to perform better the tasks enshrined in the Treaty of Lisbon. However, we should not endeavour to replace NATO with a new EU army, but instead concentrate on the appropriate division of tasks during international crises. The EU’s role could lie in the provision of humanitarian aid, while the North Atlantic Alliance would coordinate military aid. This distribution of tasks could also make it possible to strengthen cooperation with the EU's most important trade and military partner, namely the United States."@en1
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