Speech: Russian pressure on Eastern Partnership countries, destabilisation of eastern Ukraine

Text of a speech by Štefan Füle, European Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy, at a plenary session of European Parliament on 16 April 2014.

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