MEP urges politicians to “help poor Europe that can’t understand”

Posted by editor on 9/25/09 • Categorized as Foreign Policy, Russia • Print This Post •

Europe needs some help to understand Russia, Prof Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania’s Member of the European Parliament said on 25 September in Vilnius. MEP Landsbergis said the following during meeting with the parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee suggesting that Lithuania should search for means to influence the talks on relations between the European Union and Russia.

MEP said; “Maybe we could help poor Europe that cannot understand what is being imposed upon it?” Landsbergis pointed out that was trying to “launder concepts” in the agreement text. It was also attempted to force Europe to ignore human rights violations for pragmatic interests and trigger doubts on the principles of Western democracy alfa.lt wrote.