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"Mr President, I have to admit that I am a little confused. It is only a few hours since all the MEPs in this Chamber were cheering and clapping when Malala Yousafzai said that a powerful country should not be judged on counting its soldiers and its navy.
But here we have more reports and more speeches aimed at driving forward the militarisation of Europe and ensuring that the European armaments industry gets a Christmas present at the EU summit in December. These reports demand more military integration, more military ventures and more military funding, and this is only part of the process of the further militarisation of Europe. Just yesterday, at the European Defence Agency meeting, seven EU countries formed a new drone club to develop a EuroDrone. It really says something that, at this time of austerity for millions across Europe, the priority is to invest to find better ways of killing people. The Irish socialist, James Connolly, at the start of the First World War, put it very well, and very aptly for this debate: ‘War is a relic of barbarism only possible because we are governed by a ruling class with barbaric ideas.’ The working class of all countries cannot hope to escape the horrors of war until, in all countries, the barbarous ruling class is thrown from power."@en1
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