Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-01-20-Speech-3-662-000"

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dcterms:Date	"2016-01-20"^^xsd:date2
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lpv:speaker	lp:David Martin2
lpv:spoken text	"Madam President, I want to start by saying that I fully welcome the agreement between Ukraine and the European Union and despite what we have heard from the other side of the House, we need to keep stressing that this is an agreement between two sovereign trading partners. No one has forced this agreement on Ukraine. No one has forced this agreement on the European Union. We have come to it voluntarily and the aim is to improve trade and investment between our two groups, and also to ensure that the living standards of the people of Ukraine are improved as a result of this agreement. Can it succeed? Well it is early days but I think that if we look at the agreements with Georgia and Moldova, we can see that we have a good starting point. Trade between those two countries and the European Union has increased significantly since the comprehensive trade agreements came into being. Of course, that is of itself not enough and we have to do more to make sure that ordinary citizens of Georgia and Moldova benefit from the trade agreements, that living standards are improved in their country. Likewise with Ukraine. Our partnership there gives us the opportunity to start working with our Ukrainian friends, to tackle corruption, which is a serious problem in that country, to improve the price of energy available to ordinary citizens, which has gone up as a result of changes there. We need to make sure that energy poverty does not exist in that country. Finally, let me say that although it is for the Dutch people to decide what they do in their referendum, I hope they will not give a free gift to the Russians who have tried to divide this continent and have also done that partly by financing some of the right-wing Putin friends we have on the other side of this Chamber."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"David Martin (S&D )."1
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