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"Madam President, Mr President of the Commission, as the Union expands eastward to the countries of Central Europe and the Baltic, within just a few years’ time our relations with our eastern neighbours remaining outside the Union will become more and more important. The biggest potential for the Union to cement a state of peace in our immediate surroundings and to acquire new economic partnerships lies with Russia and the Ukraine. Unfortunately, this is not yet visible in the work of the Union. We like to find excuses for it, saying that these countries themselves still do not have the right economic conditions or political will to find suitable forms of cooperation. But we have already invested a considerable amount of money and resources in cooperation with the southern Mediterranean region, and we are still waiting for the results to materialise there.
We also need a long-term approach to the East. I did not notice any mention in the President’s general report of our relations with the East, which perhaps was not possible within the framework of a broad overview. In recent years, the Union’s investment in Russia in terms of finance has been one tenth of what is being spent in the Mediterranean region. Just half of what has been spent on cooperation in the Mediterranean has gone to all countries of the former Soviet Union. This is out of all proportion with the relative importance of these two neighbouring regions.
Forms of economic cooperation in particular must be concrete and feasible. Waste water from St. Petersburg and the surrounding area, with its population of some nine million, is flowing either untreated or via waterworks that function badly into the shallow, relatively salt-free and ecologically vulnerable Gulf of Finland. This has already resulted in harmful and lasting changes to the balance of nature, and the situation is continuing to deteriorate. President Prodi called for environmentally sustainable development. A sewage works for the Leningrad region would be one tangible and excellent example of a Nordic area of cooperation, and one which should now be got under way."@en1
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