Men jeg kan måske gå et skridt videre og sige, at det ville være meget skadeligt for Den Europæiske Union, hvis man efter at have forsvaret en fælles udenrigs- og sikkerhedspolitik samt en europæisk sikkerheds- og forsvarspolitik fejler i retorikken vedrørende vores handlinger.
But perhaps I could go a stage further and say that what would be really damaging for the European Union would be if, having asserted the case for a common foreign and security policy, having argued the case for a European security and defence initiative, we were then to fall way short of our rhetoric in what we actually did.