Mr President, Althea is a practical test for the European Union’ s ability to guarantee, through its foreign and security policy, stability on its own continent, and it is with a great deal of excitement that we await this mission, which can be a success only if it, once and for all, puts a face and a name to our policy on South-Eastern Europe.
Por nuestra parte queremos lamentar, como propone la comisión, que esta operación militar se financie al margen del presupuesto ordinario de la UE (punto 2).