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"Mr President, we have not been sparing in our criticism of enlargement and we have often expressed concern, including in the Chamber of the European Parliament, at the problems it poses for the labour market – with the risk that it could upset the balance of the system of small and medium-sized businesses in Padania with very dangerous consequences – and at the fears, which we see properly addressed in the Brok report, that the inadequate legislation and the political traditions of some of these countries may mean that the necessary facilities are not in place or there are insufficient facilities to provide effective protection against the expansion of financial and Mafia crime. We do, however, want to take this opportunity to welcome and extend a brotherly hand to the free peoples who succeeded in preserving their cultural identity even through the terrible years of Communist oppression, who are joining Europe, just as we did ourselves, certainly not in order to accept, after so many years of dictatorship, the diktats of the standardisation imposed by globalisation or of political correctness, or to be subjected to centralism once again. We are counting on them to help us in these battles, to help us preserve the Christian nature of the Europe of the peoples and regions which we are trying to create.
As regards the extremely sensitive subject of Turkey – which has been emerging at intervals throughout this debate, never far from the surface – we want to emphasise strongly the courage of the chairman, Mr Giscard d’Estaing, who has caused a ripple in the waters of the often over-cautious debate on European politics, stating the plain facts as they are, as we all know them to be, as is clear from all the history books studied by all the students of all European countries, namely that Turkey is not part of Europe historically, geographically or politically and that it does not satisfy the political accession criteria laid down at Copenhagen on human rights, fundamental freedoms or even freedom of religion. This is a country, a regime which has yet to resolve the historical issue of the annihilation, the holocaust of the Armenian people and which has made still less progress in terms of recognising the rights of the Kurdish minority, it is a country which it is legitimate to define, with all possible respect and all necessary diplomacy, as a kind of Mediterranean Columbia: it is home to one of the most dangerous Mafia groups which organises drug trafficking at international level.
In other words, we feel that political union with Turkey is out of the question, not least in that, if Turkey were to become part of Europe, the European Union would then have direct borders with Iraq, Iran and Syria."@en1
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