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"Mr President, allow me to extend a particularly warm, friendly and affectionate welcome to our colleagues and neighbours from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and to welcome the real burgeoning democracy which will bring it closer to the European Union.
I am sure that our colleagues expect a Greek MEP to say something about the dispute over the name. Perhaps this dispute should never have arisen, perhaps it should have been settled a long time ago; in any event, negotiations are under way, friendly negotiations, and I trust that this problem will soon be resolved.
For the rest, Greece wholeheartedly supports its neighbouring state. Everything we have heard here about what the European Union should be doing, in the form of action rather than high-flying words, Greece is already doing. In other words, Greece is already providing economic support in the form of investments – it is one of the biggest, if not the biggest investor in our neighbouring country – and through trade. It is providing political support by steadfastly backing the policy of reconciliation being applied by the government in our neighbouring country to the extremely difficult, the terribly difficult internal problems which it faces and it is providing international support in that it has officially called on NATO to prevent the anarchy which other areas in the region are endeavouring to import via our neighbouring country.
We should not be lulled by the calm here in Parliament into underestimating just how terrible the problems being created are. Extremists are using age-old, familiar tactics to kill, plunder and create incidents in order to set two groups in the same country – and in the final analysis from the same nation, because they are Europeans just like us – at each others’ throats. It is a familiar tactic. Unfortunately, it has proven effective and we must oppose it. Unfortunately we, the European Union, have added grist to the mill of mutual destruction with our mistakes. We must stand firm in our opposition and prove that we can bring about reconciliation and facilitate collaboration between nations; this is the only way of forging a link in the chain of peace rather than creating a hotbed of discontent."@en1
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