12
Feb
2025
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US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, the World Health Organisation and the suspension of US development and humanitarian aid (debate)
Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, for two months now we have been overly concerned with what the United States is doing or will do and, I think, less concerned with what the European Union should do. The European Union must remain the guardian of international legality. The European Union must remain the guardian of global health, environmental protection and biodiversity. The European Union must remain the guardian of prosperity and the reduction of social inequalities. And this can be done by revising the treaties, by a common foreign policy, by a common industrial policy, by increasing spending on social benefits and reducing inequalities. Yes to common security, no to the obsessive increase in armaments at the expense of social spending and environmental protection. So we will be re-leasing the global community for these important global goods.