Ladies and Gentlemen,
Since its establishment in the 1950s, the European Union has become a union of values ‒ and this basically differs the EU from any other economic or trade pact worldwide. The Europeans never question such things as human rights, free elections and free media, the rule of law and pluralistic society ‒ they are the fundamentals on which relations of people and cooperation of member states are based. …
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