The European Parliament will discuss Russia’s pressure on the Eastern Partnership states during the debate next week. The draft resolution has been submitted by EPP group, says the statement posted on group’s website.  

European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents decided to put the debate, with a Resolution, on the pressures exercised by Russia in the context of the November Eastern Partnership Summit in Vilnius, on the agenda of next week’s plenary session in Strasbourg. The draft resolution has been submitted by EPP group, says the statement posted on group’s website.  

“Recent pressures exercised by Russia and the consequences they had on the EU Eastern neighbourhood, i.e. Armenia’s announcement to join the Customs Union, Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili’s statement to consider such an option, the trade war with the Ukraine and numerous threats towards Moldova, are a blatant attempt to put the whole Eastern Partnership project into question. I am glad that the European Parliament will take a clear position on the issue", said Jacek Saryusz-Wolski, Vice-President of the EURONEST Parliamentary Assembly and Vice-President of the European People’s Party.

“The Ukraine, Armenia, Moldova and Georgia are just parts of the escalating pressure, whose goal is to bring the whole Eastern Partnership project which, by itself, is one of the pillars of the EU’s foreign policy, into question,” stressed the MEP.