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"Mr President, Madam Vice-President of the Commission, whenever we debate the crisis in the Balkans, which of course has now become a gentler, more correctly defined form of crisis, we are all the wiser for it. In this sense, today's report by Mr Lagendijk is a good report and we are all the wiser for having debated it. The situation in the region is indeed complicated, complicated from the political standpoint, from the social standpoint, and from the developmental standpoint.
Our intervention in the Balkans, therefore, is not technocratic intervention, it is political intervention, because new institutions need to be built. Now that every institution has been destroyed, nations which have been in conflict need to be encouraged to communicate and the entire social, political and developmental environment needs to change. So our efforts have to be unwavering, they have to take an unwavering approach which avoids controversy and they have to be in keeping with UN resolutions. Any philosophy of change could give rise to renewed crisis. Secondly, the nations in the area need to make an effort to communicate with each other again; this will also foster economic development because these countries all used to support each other's economies. Thirdly, it is good that the countries in the area as a whole will soon all be members of the European Union, from Romania to Bulgaria, Austria, Greece and so on; in other words, there will be a positive impact on developments in these countries from all sides. And then we shall need to do our utmost, politically, to help these nations, which lived in peaceful coexistence for hundreds of years, to regain their historic foothold, to rediscover their
to rediscover the political union and common way of life which, unfortunately, have been upset over recent years by untimely movements and careless initiatives."@en1
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