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"Mr President, that Kiev is more European than Ankara is proved beyond reasonable doubt by what has happened over the past ten days in Ukraine, a country in which people stand up valiantly for the essential value of their ballot papers, and also one that has taught all European institutions a lesson about the true meaning of a European community of values. Shoulder to shoulder with the United States of America, the European Union should aspire to review in the short term the outrageous electoral deception of the
in Ukraine. All credit to the Dutch Presidency, incidentally, for its efforts to date and also for the stance adopted by our new Commissioner.
In the long term, the Union must also draw conclusions from the current dramatic situation in Kiev. Why should we not give Ukraine the prospect of membership when we would do the same for Turkey, which is – let us face it – a non-European country? That appears to me to be an untenable, and in any event harmful, position.
The doom scenarios about the collapse of, or even a civil war in, Ukraine have been concocted by the actual losers of the ballot both inside and outside Ukraine. Would President Putin actually put Russia’s relationship with the United States and the European Union on the line for a Ukrainian President who has no credibility either inside or outside Ukraine? That appears too irrational to be true. Precisely a week ago, a Ukrainian author urged that ‘more urgently than ever, we need the moral and political support of the democracies in the world, because if we gamble away the democratic Ukraine today, you can forget about your self-congratulatory and conflict-free Europe as soon as tomorrow’. As close neighbours, we should be quite clear about this."@en1
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