MILAN – Matteo Cazzulani, an analyst of the center of global studies “Strategy XXI” said Ukraine is a part of Europe and there cannot be a free and secure Europe without a democratic and totally independent Ukraine. He also praised Italian PM Matteo Renzi for supporting Ukraine’s territorial integrity and urged the Italian government to do more in order to support Ukraine’s integration within the Euroatlantic community.
Mr. Cazzulani, during a presentation of his book on the trial of Yulia Tymoshenko “Ukraine, gas and handcuffs. The trial of Yulia Tymoshenko” held along with the head of FutureDem Lombardy Alessio Alberti and the President of the “Italy Ukraine Maidan” European Association Fabio Prevedello in the historical seat of Democratic Party -the ruling party of PM Renzi with a huge representation at the European Parliament- in Milan’s Garibaldi road, on January 8, also criticized the insufficient attention Italian media and political analysts paid to the democratic regress in Ukraine under the regime of Viktor Yanukovych.
“Today, Italian media are right to be concerned regarding the behavior of Mr. Orbán in Hungary and Mr. Kaczyński in Poland. However, they failed to cover and did not criticize in an proper way the democratic regress under the Yanukovych regime in Ukraine from 2010 to 2014, when dozens of dissidents, as Yulia Tymoshenko, Yuri Lutsenko and many others, were jailed and deprived of their civil rights. Thought already not from the political point of view, Ukraine is a part of Europe along with Poland, Hungary and other member states of the European Union as France, where a growing support to far right parties tied to Putin’s Russia is a serious threat for Europe” Mr. Cazzulani said.
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