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"en.20111214.22.3-271-500"2
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"The European Parliament has called for greater cooperation between the EU Member States within the defence sector. The crisis has revealed weaknesses in the common security and defence policy that require far-reaching reforms. Each year, the Member States collectively spend EUR 200 billion on defence, which represents just one third of the United States’s defence budget. The Member States are on an austerity drive and defence budgets are feeling the pinch. Budgetary constraints are limiting the Member States’ defence capabilities and creating an imbalance in relations with our partners, particularly the US, who are having to pay the price of our withdrawal, as we have seen in the case of Libya. There are high-risk pockets in the Sahel and the Horn of Africa that could constitute a threat to Europe. We therefore need to equip ourselves with an ambitious security and defence policy on both the operational and capabilities sides, a well-funded policy that promotes pooling and sharing certain capabilities with a view to optimising our activities."@en1
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