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Secretary General Dier Mark Rutte, thank you for being with us this afternoon.

I thought that your reflection on European security, NATO on the strategic importance of the Arctic were extremely valuable,

and hope to see you next year again. And the final word goes with Marie Agnes. Mark. It's really important that we exchange ideas.

The EU is not a competition to NATO.

NATO is the backbone of our security, but NATO, but the EU has to do its job and to strengthen EU power in NATO,

we know it bringing members together, explaining to.

To the public how important our security is and that we can only achieve it by working together and to ex pressure to our governments, you just said this, so that no one is allowed to stay out of it, and of course,

we have to do our job, simplify the rules, less rules, it's really better secure for all of us,

and we have a lot to do and we will continue, and thank you very much, looking forward to coming back.