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"Mr President, two weeks ago the British Government suffered a humiliating defeat when MPs felt the pressure of the mass of the population against going to war once more. Across the world, people remember the lies they were told about Iraq, about Afghanistan, and they have no trust in the political establishment. They also oppose billions of euros being handed over to the armaments industry.
And then we have this report – which flies in the face of all of the attitudes of the majority of people across Europe. It drives forward instead the efforts to militarise the European Union. It calls for the strengthening of EU battle groups in an attempt to move towards an EU army, for more money to be spent on armaments, and for a closer relationship with NATO, a military alliance with over 5 000 nuclear weapons of mass destruction.
The EU Council meeting in December will discuss further militarisation – further the agenda of the European merchants of death. The rebuilding of a strong, anti-war movement, armed with a political alternative to war ..."@en1
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