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The Solemn Declaration of Stuttgart

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3.2 Foreign policy

 

In order to cope with the increasing problems of international politics, the necessary reinforcement of European Political Cooperation must be ensured, in particular by the following measures:

• intensified consultations with a view to permitting timely joint action on all major foreign policy questions of interest to the Ten as a whole;
• prior consultation with the other Member States in advance of the adoption of final positions on these questions. The Heads of State or Government underline their undertaking that each Member State will take full account of the positions of its partners and give due weight to the adoption and implementation of common European positions when working out national positions and taking national action;
• development and extension of the practice by which the views of the Ten are defined and consolidated in the form of common positions which then constitute a central point of reference for Member States' policies;
• progressive development and definition of common principles and objectives as well as the identification of common interests in order to strengthen the possibilities of joint action in the field of foreign policy;
• coordination of positions of Member States on the political and economic aspects of security;
• increased contacts with third countries in order to give the Ten greater weight as an interlocutor in the foreign policy field;
• closer cooperation in diplomatic and administrative matters between the missions of the Ten in third countries; the search for common positions at major international conferences attended by one or more of the Ten and covering questions dealt with in Political Cooperation;
• increasing recognition of the contribution which the European Parliament makes to the development of a coordinated foreign policy of the Ten.

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      Cf.  Proudhon, Principe Fédératif * Le mémorandum d'Alexis Leger * The Briand Memorandum * Kalergi, European Spirit must Precede Europe's Political Unification * La Construction de l'Europe selon Jean Monnet * Plan Fouchet * L'Union Européenne selon Altiero Spinelli * Mitterrand and Kohl urge European Political Union * Il Manifesto di Ventotene