Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2012-06-13-Speech-3-386-250"
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"I voted for this report because I believe we need to seek to regulate the trade in conventional weapons using an international legal instrument. Despite this position of principle, I am bound to express my scepticism in relation both to its conclusion under adequate terms and to its effectiveness if it comes into force. The importance of the arms industry is well known, as is Europe’s need to maintain, if not increase, the Member States’ investment in their defence industries as part of the joint effort to be made in the context of NATO. However, beyond this legitimate investment in these industries that generate jobs and create technical innovation, there is a hard to control parallel market worth many millions of euro per year. We need to seek to limit its action and combat its principal agents. Without this firm action at international level and genuine implementation, the treaty could never get off the ground and remain a mere enunciation of hopeful words. However, the pen is mightier than the sword and, fortunately, has effects that the latter cannot always counteract."@en1
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