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Tuesday, 17 January 2023 - Strasbourg Revised edition

Implementation of the common foreign and security policy - annual report 2022 - Implementation of the common security and defence policy - annual report 2022 (debate)
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  Reinhard Bütikofer, on behalf of the Verts/ALE Group. – Madam President, Vice-President, HR/VP, David, colleagues, we do live in a new era. For the EU the next seven years will decide whether we will sit at the table or be on the menu. We have to start with realism, though. Overblown dreams of strategic autonomy can be and must be discarded because we learn in the present situation that without the United States’ support, we would not have been able to hold our own together to support Ukraine. That means we must continue to invest in transatlantic relations, but at the same time, we have to up our own game. We have to increase our capabilities: being an ally is not enough; we must be strong allies.

Second, we must not allow ourselves to be captured by delusions about the nature of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes. And that in particular means de-risk our relationship with China. Systemic rivalry is not just between Washington and Beijing. Nostra res agitur.

Third, cooperation with countries of the Global South to promote mutual benefit is not an option anymore, it’s a must – a geopolitical must, and that implies that we have to invest in the Global Gateway initiative.

And finally, the climate crisis has long been a threat—multiplier. This multiplication is getting more dangerous by the year. Fighting climate crisis is not everything, but without effectively fighting climate crisis, everything will come to nought.

 
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