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Verbatim report of proceedings
Wednesday, 17 April 2019 - Strasbourg Revised edition

European Defence Fund (debate)
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  Indrek Tarand (Verts/ALE). – Madam President, I generally support my colleague Reinhard Bütikofer and I’m impressed about his far sightedness, be it in matters relating to China or the United States. However, today I must say that, even though his criticism towards the proposal is valid and sharply precise, he could agree with me that EDF is actually too little too late, because we are long overdue to legislate on the common European Defence Force. And I mean it. As a European pillar of NATO, this force should be used to defend the European Union in times of threats and direct attacks, hence I do support Mr Krasnodębski’s report on the conditionality that further steps towards this force will be taken. And to Mr Bullock, I would like to say, yes, the European defence force will emerge and it will speak in English; unfortunately due to Brexit adventures it will not have a British commander, but it will emerge. And to Mr Ferreira, I would say three billion is peanuts – even the Estonian budget is bigger.

 
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