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"Mr President, European values, at least as understood in Ukraine, are not synonymous with the European Union. That may sound an obvious, even a banal, observation, but it is worth stressing the consequences. By European values, people mean the rule of the law, representative government, personal freedom, secure property and contract rights – essentially that the rulers do not get to change the rules as they go along but there is some judicial framework.
Now I would argue that you find those values in plenty of places outside the European Union – in Norway, New Zealand or whatever – and in fact one place where you do not always find them is in the institutions of this Union. It is the old joke that, if the EU were a country applying to join itself, it would be turned down for being insufficiently democratic.
Why do I say this? Because people in Ukraine, as well as yearning for westernisation, also have an aspiration to national independence. They understand – and we in this Chamber would do well to remember – that those values are not the same as EU membership."@en1
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