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"Mr President, recent events have made our partnership with our eastern neighbours stronger and more efficient. The policy of ‘more for more’ is important and is definitely the right approach. It will give our partners to the east the incentive to introduce more reforms and to make the necessary changes. Of course, this applies, in particular, to the countries around the Black Sea. The EU can offer help and act as a driving force for reform in a variety of areas. The region around the Black Sea will undoubtedly become more important over the next few years, not least because of the energy issue.
The European Union should take a circumspect, long-term approach to ensure that the interests of all the stakeholders can be taken into consideration as effectively as possible. This also applies to the question of constructing new oil and gas pipelines. The EU needs greater diversification in its energy supplies, but it should avoid becoming dependent on new partners, for example, Turkey. From a political perspective, we should welcome the fact that some Black Sea countries such as Ukraine are moving closer to the EU. However, in this case, we should, wherever possible, take legitimate Russian interests in this region into consideration, where they really are legitimate, in order not to put our partnership with Russia at risk."@en1
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