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"Mr President, the current effort to save the euro carries important security and defence implications which need our attention. First, the envisaged rigorous fiscal and budgetary discipline calls for continuing downsizing of our defence budgets while security challenges continue to accumulate, including in our immediate neighbourhood. Even if neither of those challenges is yet a threat, their accumulation, if unattended, might confront us with a dangerous and threatening mix in the future.
Second, Europe is increasingly forced to sell its assets, and not always to a friendly buyer. Again, if this is not attended to, we might end up with strategic European assets in the wrong hands.
Third, the effort to save the euro has already undermined the EU’s internal solidarity. With decision making concentrated in the hands of the euro countries, suspicion and even recrimination have crept to the surface, potentially undermining our pooling and sharing effort.
Fourth, at a time when the US is diminishing its contribution to NATO and talk about a smaller alliance has already been initiated across the Atlantic, Europe’s credibility – as both global actor and security provider – suffers."@en1
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