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Parliamentary question - E-000513/2015Parliamentary question
E-000513/2015

EU interference in Ukraine

Question for written answer E-000513-15
to the Commission
Rule 130
Aymeric Chauprade (NI)

On 8 January in Riga, the Commission announced that Ukraine would be getting further macro-financial aid amounting to EUR 1.8 billion.

This aid — the carrot — will of course come with strings attached: the Ukrainian Government is enjoined to negotiate with the Commission concerning governance and reforms to be implemented.

After intervening in Ukraine's foreign policy, the EU seems therefore to want to interfere in its domestic affairs now. Could the only aim of European institutions' interference in the Ukrainian crisis, undertaken in the name of freedom and the right to territorial integrity — in short, in the name of sovereignty — have been the total submission of a country to the conditions dictated by the victor? Can the Commission explain to me what freedom the Ukrainian people have when a foreign, unelected body decides on their nation's policy?