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"Mr President, Commissioner, Magdalene Hoff, on behalf of my group I wish to thank you for your valuable work. We are very enthusiastic about this report and have adopted it unanimously. At the same time we obviously hope, Magdalene, that you will be able to come back to work and that we will be able to make use of your immense knowledge of Eastern Europe.
Ladies and gentlemen, Kaliningrad will prove to be either a positive or negative example of relations between the EU and Russia, one that will either take the form of cooperation or mean problems. A good scenario would be one which gave rise to a pilot project for Russia and our whole next enlargement process. It would mean compliance there with WTO regulations, leading to Russia’s membership of that organisation. Respect for the law, stability, and civil society would grow and start to become established, and we would aid the process using our entire arsenal: TACIS, PHARE, Interreg, and so on. Our trade would increase and people would be able to move freely. A bad scenario would be one in which the gap in living standards grows wider, creating unrest within the Union, whereas unrest is now to be found outside the Union. It would be a rudimentary kind of civil society – crime is already 2% higher than elsewhere in Russia – and the movement of the population might turn into a new Berlin crisis. This is therefore a scenario we do not wish to see, although it must be borne in mind that now is a time of opportunity for us, if Russia’s new administration understands that. In any case Kaliningrad will become a barometer of our relations.
It is true, as Commissioner Patten said, that the EU-Russia Summit in the coming weeks will represent a culmination point. Russia has a lot of problems and one is that relations between Russia and the United States of America have been of very little benefit to the Russian people, who do not really understand the situation. For this reason we should propose a five-point programme to bring our relations closer: the European Economic Area, WTO membership, cooperation on energy, the northern dimension and a concrete Kaliningrad Agreement. Just five points, ladies and gentlemen."@en1
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