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"Mr President, in my opinion, if doubts are now starting to be expressed more or less openly in many Balkan countries about their own accession perspective, it serves to demonstrate the weaknesses of the European neighbourhood policy, as the countries of the Western Balkans that have a European perspective and those countries with which accession negotiations are already underway are not, of course, included in this neighbourhood policy. The course of the accession negotiations is, naturally, heavily dependent on fulfilment of the accession criteria, as we know. This is crucial, in particular when we consider the rushed enlargement involving Bulgaria and Romania.
However, peace on Europe’s doorstep is, without doubt, more important for the EU than peace in far off Afghanistan. In my view, therefore, we ought once again to focus our own efforts on unresolved conflicts in Europe involving our neighbours and at our borders.
In addition to peace efforts in the Balkans, an improvement in relations with Russia is also important. This is another country that has not been included in the European neighbourhood strategy, although it is an important strategic partner for Europe, not only in terms of energy supply. We need to work on our relations with Russia now, before the next gas dispute or the competition between Nabucco and South Stream has a chance, in the worst case scenario, to lead to a deepening of divisions. Our dependency on Russian gas will remain for a long time yet. Nabucco and supplies from other countries will probably only be able to replace one dependency with other ones. That, in my opinion, would be a bad thing.
Under no circumstances must neighbourhood policy, with the creation of free trade zones as preparation for adoption of the
degenerate into an automatic preparation for accession. That is why, in my view, we ought at last to put a stop to the accession negotiations with Turkey, which is not a European country and the Islamicisation of which will probably progress further following the most recent constitutional reform."@en1
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