Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-04-13-Speech-3-386-500"
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"en.20160413.35.3-386-500"2
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"Diane James and her fellow UKIP MEPs voted against this non-legislative report. UKIP completely rejects any notion of an EU foreign or defence policy. We firmly believe that both historic and contemporary security within Europe is best secured through NATO. This report was filled with calls for greater development of the EU’s role in these policy areas, including the establishment of common EU forces, an EU military HQ and greater alignment of Member State foreign policy to suit the EU’s interests.
With regard to paragraph 6, UKIP is fully committed to the 2% defence spending pledge, to which we are obliged to uphold through our NATO membership and the current government have committed themselves to. There is no need for the EU to make any encouragements or statements in this area, as such we rejected its inclusion in the report.
Defence of the realm is the sovereign duty of the state and the whole review process of the EU’s new Global Strategy, to which this report is linked, represents the further erosion of Member State sovereignty."@en1
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