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"en.20020613.4.4-130"2
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"The dismantling of public services; industrial restructuring, leading to an explosion in unemployment, particularly in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Lithuania and Poland; the actual or planned closing-down of energy sources in Lithuania, Estonia and Bulgaria, with dramatic social and economic repercussions; the planned elimination of millions of smallholdings in Poland, Slovenia and Hungary and the dismissal of those for whom they provide a living, albeit a meagre one; and the policy for reducing agricultural production, which the European authorities want to emphasise everywhere.
It is a disastrous state of affairs for these countries and, more so, for those of their inhabitants who work in the towns and in the countryside.
It is a state of affairs on which, however, the EU authorities congratulate themselves, since the main European tobacco producer, Bulgartabak, is to be privatised and since the privatisation of the banks, insurance companies, telecommunications companies and other industries is progressing at the same time as direct foreign investment is increasing. To put it another way, here we go again with the systematic bleeding of Central and Eastern European countries by big investors, particularly from Western Europe. What, then, motivates the consortium of affluent countries constituted by the EU is, first of all, widening the scope for profit offered to their industrial and financial trusts.
Our vote is not a vote against the entry of these countries into the European Union, but a protest against the way in which their entry is being managed, that is to say under the aegis of big investors."@en1
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