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"Mr President, I voted for Mr Brok’s report, although I am well aware of the serious difficulties and obvious limitations of the EU’s foreign policy.
I would like to highlight two aspects that cause me particular concern. The first is the arms trade. We set ourselves the aim of non-proliferation and disarmament, but at the same time our legislation to control arms exports is totally inadequate. What we say we want to do, therefore, is then denied and contradicted by our behaviour.
The second area in which our limitations are all too evident is conflict prevention, which ought to make it possible to consolidate peace. The events in the Mediterranean – which have been inappropriately termed the Arab Spring – show that we were not quick enough to grasp what was happening in those countries, and the Union’s foreign policy was unable to prevent situations from developing that were really terrible for millions of people.
I hope our foreign policy will be more effective in future than it has been in recent months."@en1
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