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Newsletter: No. 168 23 May 2017
EU’s Federica Mogherini: “The EU is in a unique position to provide global security”
The European Union is in a unique position to provide global security, according to Federica Mogherini, the EUڈs head of foreign affairs and vice-president of the EU Commission, who stated that the EU had both the “hard”and the “soft”power needed to accomplish the task Speaking in Estonia, she said: “There is a European way to security that is never purely and only military. You take any crisis or security threat in the world of today, and you realise that the hard power, the military means are always necessary but never enough.
“The European Union has this unique mix of hard power that needs to be increased because itڈs not enough, what we have now, but we have at the same time the soft power. And this is a unique mix if we manage to increase our hard power, position ourselves in a place that can be very helpful for our partners in the world to tackle some security issues”
If the bloc had the “political courage”to take on the role it could become an institution that provides worldwide security“So I think that the work we have ahead of us is huge but we have, if we are self-confident and we take the political courage to use the potential we have, we could be indeed the security provider for European regions, and more largely the world”
Extracted from the People’s News Newsletter: No. 168 23 May 2017(PDF)
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