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Bernard Jenkin

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The following is an extract from exchanges on the Urgent Question on the December European Council on 7 January 2014.
Bernard Jenkin Portrait Mr Bernard Jenkin (Harwich and North Essex) (Con)
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If EU defence is really just harmless intergovernmentalism, why do we have directives that have the force of law in the field of defence? Why do these conclusions include invitation after invitation for the Commission, which is not an intergovernmental institution, to lead on initiatives? Why are we still in the European Defence Agency, which contains expensive provision for qualified majority voting on defence? Is not my right hon. Friend becoming somewhat blind to the fact that we are moving towards a federal defence policy and a European army? He is in denial.

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