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"en.20111214.22.3-268-000"2
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"I voted against the report because it advocates an increase in military spending by the Member States and the European Union, despite the rampant economic crisis and restrictions on social spending and the income and rights of the workers. At a time when the people of Europe are suffering the consequences of the crisis, this specific report helps to serve the interests of the arms industry. By proposing that the arms industry be developed as a way of resolving the unemployment problem, it is endeavouring to intertwine the fate of the people of Europe with the production and export of arms that end up in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel and elsewhere, thereby promoting interests foreign to the people. In perfect keeping with the ‘security’ philosophy, the report is in favour, among other things, of upgrading the operation of NATO and of the Union within it. It gives priority to the military side of the Union and encourages the correlation and equation of civil and military resources, regardless of whether they concern technical infrastructures or research or Union action. The Union must channel resources into social spending and public investments and must formulate its foreign policy on the basis of international law and peaceful principles, instead of providing a profit for the mass production of arms."@en1
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