Les voisins de la Russie se sentent menacés

“L’Ukraine, il en a aussi été question ici, à Dublin, où le Parti populaire européen tient son congrès. Parmi les participants, des figures emblématiques du mouvement pro-européen”, remarque Audrey Tilve, notre envoyée spéciale en Irlande.A la tribune on retrouve en effet l’Ukrainien Vitali Klitschko ou l’ancienne Première ministre Ioulia Timochenko, commentant face aux politiciens européens de centre-droit, l’intervention russe dans la crise ukrainienne. Plusieurs pays voisins de la Russie étaient à Dublin, et ils s’inquiètent, comme l’ex-président géorgien, ou l’ancien Premier ministre lithuanien : “Les Russes annoncent qu’ils vont annexer la Crimée. Ils ont les mêmes plans pour les régions occupées de Géorgie et la Transnistrie, remarque le Géorgien Mikheil Sakaachvili. Personne depuis Hitler n’a tenté quelquechose comme ça en Europe. Et rappelez-vous ce qu’on disait à son époque, donnons lui et peut être se calmera-t-il. il ne s’est pas calmé. Plus vous les abreuvez de pays, plus ils continuent. “ “Qui sera le prochain, se demande Andrius Kubilius, l’ancien Premier ministre lithuanien. Pour tout le monde la réponse est très claire. Les Etats baltes ne sont pas en sécurité. Nous, en Lithuanie, nous nous sentons vraiment dans une région très dangereuse.” A l’extérieur du Congrès, des manifestants pro-ukrainiens sont venus crier leur colère contre Poutine, assimilé au diable. There are various sots of Tymochenki, Klitchko, Sakaachvili, Kubilius and Stubb. The idea was to make the easteners react on what is happening in Crimea and on the weak european response. Timochenko, Sakaachvili and Kubilius are quite strong. Please, make your choice. Other sots might also be used tomorrow in other stories. Good night and best regards,Stand-up de début (in case)« L’Ukraine, il en a aussi été question ici, à Dublin, où le Parti populaire européen tient son congrès. Parmi les participants, des figures emblématiques du mouvement pro-européen… »Ioulia Timochenko Saying roughly that there are only a few days left, and that if the referendum goes on on the 16th of march, the aggression will be total. (please check with the ukranian journalist)She has been asked also to confirm if she would be a candidate for presidency and she answered that it was up to the party to decide, implying yes.Vitali Klitchko“ L’instabilité dans un pays peut causer l’instabilité dans toute une région. » (in german)Mikheil Sakaachvili, former president of Georgia (when the georgian war happened)(tough on Poutine)“ They announced that they would annex Crimea. They have the same plan for the Georgian occupied regions and apparently they have the same plans for Transnistria. Nobody since Hitler has tried anything like that in Europe. And remember back then, people were saying : let’s give him that and maybe he will calm down. He didn’t calm down. More you feed these countries to them, more these people go on. “Or same guy“ Crimea has huge gas reserves. In the regional sense, it is almost like Irak seizing Koweit back then. For Ukraine, it wa s decisive to have this gas, for Europe it’s a major resource of shale gas that was going to enter European market in a few years time. It’s gonne now with the Russian invasion and occupation.Andrius Kubilius, former Prime minister of Lithuania (tough on Poutine)« He’s really just now behaving in a very dangerous fashion (Poutine). I would compare him with the leadership of North Korea. I mean a country which has nuclear arms and whose leadership is unpredictable. “Or same guy…“ We, in Lithuania, we are feeling ourselves in a really dangerous region. Obviously the question in Lithuania is very simple. In 2008, it was Georgia, just now it is Ukraine, and who will be the next ? In everybody’s mind, the answer is very clear. Baltic states are not very secure. “Alexander Stubb, minister for European Affairs, Finland (in favour of dialogue)“ When we talk about toughness, what could that be ? Targeted sanctions, well, perhaps. But that’s not gonna take place anytime soon. What else can we do ? Use armed force ? Certainly not. So we need to negociate. Our instruments are of course quite limited but we are quite good at talking on the European side. “