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Common security and foreign policy
Plenary Speech - Wednesday, 28th March 2007 Mr. President: I was born in 1944, in the dying months of the Second World War. For the whole of my lifetime, it has been NATO and the Transatlantic Alliance which have kept the peace in Europe. It wasn't the EU or the European Commission that defeated the USSR and brought down the Berlin Wall. It was the courage and determination of leaders like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. The CFSP and its military posturing threaten to undermine the Transatlantic Alliance. They are born out of jealously and resentment and anti-Americanism. They are over-weight with strategies and planning papers and staff colleges, but desperately light on men and ships and guns and tanks and aircraft. The CFSP will threaten the foundations of Western security, and leave us all exposed in a dangerous and unpredictable world. Yet another reason why my country would be Better Off Out of the European Union |