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"Mr President, I would like to welcome the passion with which Mr Belder has delivered his report on the Roma and on the East European situation. It is the most extreme versions of racism on the edges of Europe which we are disturbed about. When the debate about Austria – which has many elements, many complexities – was unfolding we realised that on the edges of Austria there were significant candidate countries which, while they were making progress in economic, progress in social aspects, represented a real problem with regard to their treatment of minorities. In Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary there were significant problems with the treatment of the Roma. What we must realise is that, as we enlarge Europe, we have a significant responsibility for ensuring that any country that wishes to join the European Union must also reform the way that it treats minorities and the way that it treats the whole question of race discrimination.
I would make two or three other very simple points. What the Roma situation shows, what Mr Belder's report shows, is that an extreme version of discrimination clearly exists throughout the European Union, otherwise we would not be discussing this issue. There are many questions we must discuss: How strongly will we push the question of Article 13? Do we really want race discrimination protection throughout the European Union? The answer is yes. We must have it quickly and we must have comprehensive legislation. If we look around the European institutions and Parliament, we realise there are very few faces from ethnic minorities. That situation is improving, but ultimately we have institutions which are bereft of representation. It is representation and other similar issues that we must now tackle. Racism is a complex issue. We have begun to discuss it adequately but we have so much further to go."@en1
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