Text tabled : A7-0166/2011

  Traian Ungureanu (PPE), in writing. – I voted in support of our common foreign and security policy report, with the hope that such a policy would take shape at last. Up to now, our common foreign and security policy is a collection of disagreements and misguided initiatives. The recent Euro-row over action in Libya and the subsequent German opt-out made it clear to the rest of the world that the EU is still not able to project a real common foreign and security policy. Moreover, the French initiative aiming at consolidating the financing of the southern neighbourhood at the expense of the eastern neighbourhood sent a disastrous message to our eastern partners. This is even more sensitive at a time when other quintessential European projects are in doubt, if not in crisis. The euro is under constant pressure and the problem is, in part, generated by the same lack of European ambition and coherence. The Schengen Area is rolled back on a daily basis and national barriers re-emerge as the European spirit and legislation are ignored or broken by fellow Member States. A non-existent common foreign and security policy assisted by a huge External Action Service would seriously undermine European credibility in the world.