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"Mr President, I hope that nobody in the EU leadership was happy in Khanty-Mansiysk when the new Russian President was mocking European solidarity.
Now we have the present challenge: are the legitimate existential concerns of smaller littoral states respected or neglected? If those ‘limitrophe’ tribes are not respected and their destiny remains marginal, we are all drawn into a swamp of neo-colonialism inside the new Europe. If Parliament votes against a truly independent environmental impact assessment and dislikes the prevention of real dangers because big money says bluntly ‘there is no risk of a disaster’ after such positions are proposed as a matter of urgency by one national team, the EU itself as a European idea risks being dumped to a poisoned bottom.
Colleagues who are listening, go to the tombs of Adenauer, Schuman and De Gasperi and ask how you should vote, especially on the first five Gazprom amendments. As for me, I will shake hands with every esteemed German parliamentarian in this House who votes against these amendments by 41 Members.
Those who were misguided may remedy the mistake by abstaining. Let Europe remain our priority."@en1
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