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"en.20170704.37.2-635-000"2
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"Madam President, stretched defence budgets in Europe and an isolationist President Trump in America, who is ambivalent about NATO, and soaring populations across some of the poorest parts of the world without jobs to match, have led to political instability in many countries ,whilst a rising China and an assertive Russia are unwinding the post-1991 international consensus.
Therefore, moves towards a European defence fund, a European defence industrial development programme, in addition to exploring the viability of permanent structured cooperation and the funding of EU battle groups via the Athena mechanism are all interesting developments in this direction. These are sensible measures aimed at improving European collective security, and strengthening the role of the EU Member States that they can play together in association and within NATO.
I am pleased that the UK Government has announced it will not be making any moves to block these plans as an exciting EU Member State. And I hope that as Brexit negotiations progress, creative ways will be found for the UK to stay as plugged-in as possible into the common foreign and security policy and the common security and defence policy."@en1
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