EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU needs more solidarity in negotiations with Russia and to stay open to Turkish and Ukrainian membership in order to improve security in its eastern neighbourhood, Lithuanian prime minister Gediminas Kirkilas told EUobserver in Brussels on Friday (8 September).
"I think we still have some lack of solidarity in the European Union in our relations with Russia," the ex-defence minister said during his first visit to the EU capital after taking office in July. "When we act together with all the European Union countries we are, of course, much stronger."
He urged the 25-member bloc to find a "common voice" in its ongoing talks with Russia on a new pact to govern post-2007 energy and political relations, saying "My experience from the Kaliningrad negotiations is that when we act together in the EU, there are a lot of successful results."
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