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"Mr President, this is, as you know, the first time the mutual defence clause is being invoked, and how we deal with it will serve as a precedent. We need to take a long-term view and develop concrete guidelines that will allow us to respond fast and effectively in the future.
Let this also be an opportunity to strengthen cooperation on defence and intelligence- sharing. It is difficult to justify to our taxpayers that EU Member States collectively spend many times more on defence than any other major powers, yet are militarily less effective, simply because we do not work together. How can we justify terrorists slipping under the radar because we failed to share life-saving information? How do we tackle the flow of firearms on the black market without blocking cross-border circulation vital to our economy? EU cooperation provides the answer. This does not mean taking sovereignty away from national governments, nor stepping aside of NATO – a point made very clear in article 42(7). It means being smart: supporting clusters, role specialisation, joint research and procurement, increasing market integration. I urge the Council to make defence cooperation a priority."@en1
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