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"Mr President, I welcome the High Representative’s presence in the Chamber tonight to inform not just all of us, but – equally as important – our constituents back home over development in the European Union’s common foreign and security policy and common security and defence policy. Most EU citizens are unaware of the extent to which the European Union’s powers in this area have matured since the Lisbon Treaty and where the ideologues within the European Commission intend to take it next, all without the direct consultation or full information provided to the public.
The EU intergovernmental structures for foreign affairs and defence are already in place. We have before us a representative who determines and guides European Union Foreign Policy, whilst representing the EU’s interests – not on the basis of the 28 Member States but as its own independent political entity throughout the world. She is, of course, supported by the European External Action Service and European Defence Agency – if you like, the EU’s very own Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence. Currently, the High Representative is reviewing the foreign and defence policy of the EU, with her bolder and far more intrusive policy expected to be announced in the Foreign Affairs Council timed to take place not before, but shortly after, the British referendum on my country’s continued EU membership at the end of June.
In last week’s referendum, the Dutch people democratically rejected the EU’s foreign policy ambitions in Ukraine. I urge the British people to bravely follow suit and reject this entire failing project outright, thus protecting us from ever-closer Union and, not least, eventual European Union armed forces."@en1
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