– (DA) Mr President, it is, in my view, clearer than ever nowadays that there is a need for an international legal sys
tem, and it is also becoming ever clearer that, if an
international legal system is to be developed that is viable and that applies to large as well as small countries, it is the EU
that must play the decisive role and be the guarantor of large, as well as small, countries’ complying with a set of international grou
...[+++]nd rules.