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"Over and above the legal quibbling on all sides, the Biarritz Summit has confirmed that the process of European enlargement is a matter of laborious haggling. The major powers, such as Germany, France, the United Kingdom and, to some extent, Italy, are all agreed in their desire to dominate the small countries of Eastern or Southern Europe that are applying for accession to the European Union. At the same time, each country is seeking to ensure its own supremacy and to guarantee the interests of its own industrial or financial groups. The way is being prepared not just for a two-speed Europe, but for the introduction of less developed countries into the arena dominated by the large predators of the European economy. On the outside, these countries are already preyed on, and they will continue to be so on the inside.
As for the Charter of Fundamental Rights, the only reason the meeting of Heads of State and Government signed it was in order to be seen to make a statement. The signed document remains vague on elementary human rights, social protection and the freedom of movement of third country nationals. The only area in which it is precise is on the right of ownership and entrepreneurial freedom, which only concerns owners of capital. We have no intention whatsoever of accepting either the Biarritz Summit decisions or what will be decided at the coming summit in Nice."@en1
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