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"A few weeks away now from an enlargement that will make Russia our immediate neighbour, it would seem essential to strengthen political links with this great nation.
Logically, this report should have allowed a strong signal to be given to the Russian Federation. Parliament did not, however, decide to take this line of action. Rather than adopting a constructive approach of partnership with Russia, the majority in Parliament deliberately chose the easy way, that is to say futile ideology and base condemnation.
Apart from the customary Manichean assumptions extrapolated from the conflict that pits legal power against the Islamic terrorists at work in the Chechen province, the report does in this case contain absolutely staggering observations on the internal political situation in Russia. What right, for example, allows the European Parliament to question the honesty of the legislative ballot of December 2003 and, even more seriously, openly to criticise its result? How can Parliament dare speak about a process designed to weaken the rule of law and democracy?
These allegedly moral judgments on a situation, the complexity of which human rights zealots fail to see, discredit a European Union which is undoubtedly very immature."@en1
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