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"Mr President, this report by Mrs Napoletano is extremely important and we are pleased that certain amendments, including our own, that were adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy have rounded it off and improved it further. The role of the countries which are about to join the European Union is now crucial in promoting an effective neighbourhood policy with the countries that will remain outside our new borders. Many of these countries also aspire to join the Union; not straight away, as Commissioner Verheugen has said, but the door is still open. This neighbourhood policy certainly depends on us and on Brussels, but it also depends greatly on them.
As a rapporteur, I have paid close attention to Poland and I have seen how successive governments on the right and left have for years been using great initiative in addressing problems in their relations with neighbouring countries, particularly Ukraine, in the run-up to enlargement. Many Members of this House have already mentioned problems such as cross-border traffic – local traffic that drives a considerable, albeit hidden and underground, economy – and the efforts that Poland has always made to keep Ukraine on its side, on our side, on the side of the West. A short time ago, I was talking to some Polish colleagues who have been pursuing this policy in the Warsaw parliament. In my view, Poland is an example of what the new countries should and will have to do so that those countries that remain outside Europe’s new borders will not feel excluded, as Mrs Napoletano has said.
I should also like to mention Moldova, perhaps the poorest country in Europe. As the report points out, we are pursuing a rather inconsistent policy towards it. We should help this country more, both economically and above all politically, to protect it from a growing and worrying Russian influence that is filtering in through the Transdniestrian enclave. This is an appeal that we have heard from many friends that our group has in that country, and one that we very much hope will be answered."@en1
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