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"en.20130418.19.4-156-500"2
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"Claude Moraes’ report on visa facilitation to Ukraine has become far more controversial than most similar reports, owing to the row about allegedly homophobic legislation passing through the Verkhovna Rada, and the continued imprisonment of ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Nevertheless, we must recognise the recent positive steps that Ukraine has taken in its relations with the EU, and never lose sight of the fact that Ukraine is a fundamentally European country with a history and culture inextricable from Europe’s. Ukraine’s rightful place is in the extended family of European nations, and eventually, we hope, in the EU itself. Ordinary people are frequently forgotten in visa debates, which become hostages to the political knockabout between the EU and its neighbours – but it is ordinary Ukrainian people who stand to gain if this legislation is adopted, and to lose out if wider political concerns are allowed to intrude. Ukrainians must have the right to travel more freely as tourists in the EU, and engage in the kind of cultural dialogue which will be a pre-requisite for closer European integration, and ultimate EU membership. I abstain because of the UK’s non-Schengen status, but fully endorse the aims of this report."@en1
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