Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2011-12-14-Speech-3-281-000"
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"en.20111214.22.3-281-000"2
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"While it appears to be a well researched report containing much useful information, this report is a manifesto for EU defence integration and so rejected by the ECR Group.
It largely ignores NATO, to which we attach primary importance. It emphasises the very questionable concept of ‘pooling and sharing’ with all the problems of political unreliability that this involves. It seeks to boost the ‘strategic autonomy of the EU’ when importance should instead be attached to operating alongside the forces of our greatest ally, the United States. And the innocent-sounding ‘harmonisation of military requirements’ takes us down the dangerous path of EU procurement of defence equipment.
While we support transparency in offset arrangements, this is a matter best left to individual countries. We are in favour of increased investment in defence R&D, provided this comes from compensating reductions in other EU budget areas. We cannot support the various schemes such as the so-called European Security and Defence College and EU funding of military exchanges and training schemes, which are merely designed to inculcate some bogus idea of a ‘European identity’ to supersede our national identity and loyalty. The entire thrust of the report and its conclusions are misguided."@en1
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