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"Mr President, next week they will start constructing a Formula 1 circuit in Moscow. When you construct a circuit, you have to stick to the engineer’s plan. There are no two ways about it. We are supposed to be the engineers of democracy in this House, and maybe we should talk, not really about the EU-Russia relationship but about the EU-Kremlin relationship, because the leaders of the Kremlin will change one day, and we hope that they will change for the better. Of course we want Russia in and we want the Kremlin in. Nobody can argue with that, but the question is: on whose terms? It cannot be on their terms. It has to be on universal terms of universal values. We are supposed to defend the very foundation of the EU. If you are a member of the scouts, you have to be a law-abiding member of the scouts. If we condone these current – how should I say – practices of the Kremlin regime, we are in a way denying ourselves the raison d’être of the EU. We are also betraying the Russian people, because we have to support democratic forces all over the world. No double measures. We have to give hope to those people who are fighting for the fundamental values in life. That is our duty. If Russia becomes democratic, we must welcome them to any international structure. We have to see far ahead, as our forefathers did. Why should Russia not one day belong to a reformed EU or NATO? We will never know. Mr Monnet and Mr Schuman were very far-sighted people. That is the way forward. This discussion is becoming very serious, so may I remind you – when I think of our relationship – of just one Russian anecdote. A chicken said to a pig, ‘Let us have a joint venture. Let us have a breakfast company. I will bring eggs and you will bring bacon’."@en1
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