Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-05-15-Speech-3-115"
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"en.20020515.5.3-115"2
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The fact that, after the fall of the Soviet Union, Russia foundered, that its economy collapsed due to plundering by the nouveaux riches and the corrupt authorities, and that its people were plunged into poverty are problems that more often than not fail to cause European leaders any great concern. Now, however, the enlargement of the European Union towards the east means that a small area of this foundering Russia – the region of Kaliningrad – will be completely landlocked by two Member States. This will have implications in terms of pollution, trafficking in drugs, weapons and human beings. We suddenly find out that it is in the best interests of the EU to take an interest in this matter. How can it resolve these problems? The European Union does not, in fact, have a solution, and the report acknowledges this. It reiterates its fervent wishes as well as proposing to organise European-Russian border patrols on both sides of the border, in order to make it more difficult than at present for those who live there to cross the border. As for the subsidies that the EU is preparing to grant Kaliningrad, and which are designed to transform it into a ‘pilot region’ acting as a bridge between the EU and the rest of Russia, we all know that these will only be used to line the pockets of the local ruling mafiosi."@en1
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