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"We have not voted in favour of Mr Brok’s decision. It is an expression of a development of European cooperation that we cannot support. We do not therefore consider the development of a common defence to be of benefit either to present or future Member States, and we are opposed to involving NATO in a decision concerning enlargement of the EU. We believe that the decision skates all too easily over the problems created by Schengen for quite a few candidate countries, for example when it comes to regional cohesion in the form of trade, and other contact, with neighbouring States outside the EU. The issue of Kaliningrad’s future, to which the rapporteur does not give serious treatment, also comes under this heading.
Moreover, the decision has all too little to say about the problems raised by the transitional arrangements demanded by the EU, for example concerning the freedom of movement of the labour force. Such arrangements would, for one thing, prolong the problem of illegal labour from candidate countries in current Member States and, for another, give people in the candidate countries the sense of being second-class citizens of the EU. Furthermore, we think that the decision is far too weak when it comes to the agricultural and structural funds. We welcome the fact that the rapporteur emphasises the necessity of putting both the environment and the social consequences of the arrangements into the equation; but, if enlargement is to be an equitable process, a minor adjustment in these two crucial areas is far from being sufficient.
Finally, the author’s arrogance towards countries’ populations is completely incomprehensible, and we wish to retain the right of each individual country’s population to decide for itself."@en1
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