Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-01-20-Speech-3-651-000"

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lpv:speaker	lp:Richard Howitt2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, after the setbacks of the Riga Summit, tonight there are glimmers of hope that the prospects for the Eastern Partnership are being rekindled with the completion of the ratification of Georgia’s Association Agreement by all 28 Member States last month and the free trade deal with Ukraine officially coming into effect at the start of the year. The Minsk agreement may have been questioned, but it has not been destroyed and, alongside the efforts the Commissioner referred to on Transnistria, we should welcome political developments in Moldova this very day, which look to have brought a political crisis to an end. However, it is clear in Moldova, and in Ukraine in particular, that it is necessary for the EU to undertake deep engagement in order to strengthen Europe-facing movements in these countries. I do hope that the country which suffered most from the MH17 disaster will support political progress in Ukraine, which could help prevent such terrible events from happening again. On Georgia, selective justice and corruption are problems in all the countries of the neighbourhood, not one country. The EPP should not engage in selective politics, but support Georgia’s aspirations too. Finally, regarding our neighbours’ neighbours, once again I place on record that my group supports the Commission’s tentative work on studying possibilities for relations between the European Union and the Eurasian Union. And we support political dialogue with Moscow, but not to bargain over sovereign countries or to weaken our approach on sanctions. Socialists and Democrats do not deny or underestimate different perspectives, but we do want to make genuine attempts to bridge them."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"Richard Howitt (S&D )."1
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