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WE frequently hear one another talking in the name of Europe. Nevertheless, this common platitude is actually a perversion of the truth: there are only 15 of us in the EU; Europe has many more States, peoples and nations than only we 15. We are mentioning this in order to get across our basic viewpoint in this debate: enlargement is essential and is a political development of enormous significance, from which we cannot shy away. Enlargement does, admittedly, pose challenges and difficulties, but we shall have to face them and overcome them, because this is our fate and in order for the European project, of which the Union is a part, to have real meaning. We feel that that most important thing is for Europeans to be united, and that this should take precedence over all other political agendas. For this reason we also reject the stubborn institutional fantasies of those Members who have turned the federalist credo into a religion and who worship the power of Brussels, believing it to be divine and interfere in everything and wish to regulate everything – future events and even those in the past. By acting in this way, they are only creating unnecessary resistance and dangerous tensions. The Union – it is time this were pointed out – was not established so that we could interfere in each other’s business, but so that we could cooperate in mutual respect and gain as much as possible from pooling our common energies."@en1
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