There is a reason I believe it was worth including certain clauses in the treaties and making them part of the law. At the time in question, the European Parliament and the Union itself sent numerous resolutions back and forth, provided humanitarian aid and saw to it that lightly armed UN troops were given a mandate to enter Bosnia Herzegovina. I was attending a session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg in July 1995 when the UN troops were driven out by the Serbs and 8,000 people, because they were Muslim and male, were taken out and slaughtered. From that moment, as an act of conscience, I could not tolerate the failure or absence of capacity of the EU to have resolve with good authority.