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"Mr President, when I compare this hemicycle during the debate about the South and the debate about the East, I am less optimistic and less able to be as optimistic as my predecessors. I approve the course of policy, Mrs Ashton and Mr Füle, all the texts and documents and declarations, but I am worried about the capacity to deliver.
The summit is happening – and let us not hide this – in a very difficult context. We have negative dynamics in the EU due to the crisis and the South, we had an example of the failure of Euronest to agree a message to the summit, and we have negative dynamics in the East because of the retreat of democracy. Does our offer, what is on the table, create sufficient leverage for our policy in the East?
We have been taken by surprise in the South. We do not want the same to happen in the East. We need to have a good answer or another Tahir Square will happen in Minsk, Baku and in Yerevan.
I have a question about Ukraine that must be asked. Commissioner, Madam High Representative, do you exclude the possibility that Yanukovych is playing a double game by declaring himself for the European cause and, at the same time, sabotaging it in terms of the abuse of democracy standards displayed in the Tymoshenko case? He is blackmailing us by saying that if not, he will turn to Russia and he is blackmailing Russia by saying that he will turn to the European Union. But Ukraine is the test.
We should conclude an association agreement by the end of the Polish Presidency and then refuse to ratify it if matters continue in Ukraine as they are."@en1
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