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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2013-09-11"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Maritime dimension of the common security and defence policy - EU's military structures: state of play and future prospects (debate)2
dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20130911.51.3-469-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-09-11-Speech-3-470-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"Mr President, well today we have heard quite modest speeches from both Commission President Barroso on his State of the Union and from Baroness Ashton. A change from the ambitious rhetoric of a year ago and I would like to think that the penny is beginning to drop; a realisation that there is neither the political appetite nor the resources for some sort of European Federation strutting the world’s stage stressed in khaki and navy blue. Yet the two reports on CSDP that we are now considering repeat the old grandiose mantras of EU military headquarters, EU battle groups, 60 000 man deployments, indeed EU armed forces with Admiral Gomes’ dream of great EU-flagged armadas roaming the oceans from the Pacific to the Arctic. Now the only problem is that no one wants to pay for any of this and few want to take on the tough military challenges, and in any case, and most importantly, it is all being done already: at NATO. Everything which is suggested – operational headquarters, pooling and sharing, coordinated defence planning, support for defence R&D, improved ISR assets, development of UAVs, strategic lift, air-to-air refuelling, tackling piracy – is all being done already, and the most brilliant idea, the one that would create yet another category of ins and outs among European allies, is for the more ambitious federalists to create their own little army through permanent structured cooperation. I have a simple question for the Council and the Commission. Why does the EU not try to get its act together and concentrate its crisis management efforts on civil and humanitarian contributions, instead of trying to play soldiers. This would complement NATO and might actually be useful. How refreshing it would be for the EU at its so-called Defence Council in December to announce that it will forthwith put its energies into civil action and encourage EU Member States to play a full military role in NATO."@en1
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; TRAN (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 vice-chair; PECH (2011-12-13--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with India (2010-07-07--2014-06-30)3 member; SEDE (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 unknown; Conservative Party (2009-07-14--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation for relations with the NATO Parliamentary Assembly (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; Delegation for relations with Iran (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3 member; AFET (2012-01-19--2014-06-30)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Turkey Joint Parliamentary Committee (2009-09-16--2014-06-30)3
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take two blue-card questions under Rule149(8))"1 "Geoffrey Van Orden,"1 "on behalf of the ECR Group"1
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