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"Mr President, at this moment we should be focused on combating a real terrorist threat and, in particular, on assisting France and other close allies that have been under recent terrorist attack, not trying to advance misplaced EU defence ambitions by federalists in this House. The ECR Group therefore strongly opposes the joint resolution calling for permanent structured cooperation in defence, the establishment of a permanent EU headquarters to plan collective defence, and movement towards an autonomous European Defence Union, by definition separate from NATO. This is dangerous nonsense, as realists understand only too well.
We have long warned about the dangers of EU meddling in defence, which can only be at the expense of our national sovereignty and of NATO, the indispensable alliance credible to our potential enemies and deeply reassuring to our allies. Many were dismayed when the Lisbon Treaty included a mutual defence clause – a cosmetic imitation of NATO’s Article 5 but with no foundation. The EU itself has no capability to provide collective defence. In any case, 22 EU countries are NATO members, and the small remainder, with just one exception, have participated in some way in NATO activity. There is no excuse for the inclusion of Article 42(7) in an EU treaty and certainly not for its invocation, unless of course your aim is to be provocative or you want deliberately to see NATO sidelined."@en1
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