Pat Cox - Keynote Address
Channel: IIEA
Date: 26/01/2015

The pace of events in Ukraine in the course of 2014 has been breathless - from the deaths of pro-European protesters in February, through the end of the Yanukovych regime, to the annexation of Crimea and onset of war in eastern Ukraine. In this address, which comes just three days before the Ukrainian Parliamentary elections, Mr. Cox  addressed corruption and the role of the Ukrainian oligarchy; he reflected on future relations between Ukraine, the EU and Russia; and he asked whether Ukraine can be a bridge between Europe and Russia or whether it will be a buffer.


About the Speaker:

Pat Cox is a former President of the European Parliament. Having worked as an economist and broadcaster, he was elected to the European Parliament in 1989, leading the Liberal Democrat group from 1998 to 2002, when he was elected President. From 2012, Mr. Cox co-Chaired a European Parliament monitoring mission to Ukraine to monitor the criminal cases against Yuriy Lutsenko,  Valeriy Ivaschenko and, notably, former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko. Mr. Cox is also the EU Coordinator for the €52 billion Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T Priority Project No I), a high capacity rail link from Berlin to Palermo. 

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