Speech by High Representative/Vice-President Federica Mogherini at the European Parliament plenary session on European Foreign Security and Defence Policy
(WorldNews Europe)

Strasbourg, 12 December 2017 Check against delivery! Thank you Mr President, Let me thank David MacAllister [Member of the European Parliament] and Michael Gahler [Member of the European Parliament] for their great work and the entire [European] Parliament for an excellent, longstanding work. Looking at your reports, I see, first of all, a very strong consensus among us on how crucial our unity has become - for our European citizens and for the entire the world. There is a need for the European Union as a force for peace and security. There is a need for us to be a credible and reliable power on the global scene, a rational, wise, calm one. I am glad that your reports also demonstrate a...