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"Mr President, congratulations to the rapporteur. As European GDPs fall, the percentage of spending on defence naturally falls as well, and will continue to fall. We had better get used to that. The economic and financial cuts added to this are pushing Europe into a defence ‘trap’ where we will be unable to meet our present and future commitments should we not do something about it.
Individual nations are not in an industrial position to work alone. Procurement, technology, new innovation: these approaches need, by their very nature, to be shared, pooled and made available for all. Given Europe’s special status as a continent split asunder by war over hundreds of years, we have a responsibility to maintain some coordination of our common security.
In this case, the view that I have heard from some speakers, like Mr van Orden, that NATO is the end of it, is simply wrong. I cannot see that his point about bureaucrats has anything to do with it. He was after all, as a staff officer himself, involved in Brussels in much of the bureaucracy in the decision making in NATO and the Commission. Or so I understand – unless your Wikipedia page is wrong. But perhaps you need to correct that before you start criticising."@en1
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