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"Mr President, I would like to ask the Commissioner, who is here today, and the President-in-Office of the Council to explain how they are going to apply the principle of equality within this enlargement process.
In my view, following the Franco-German agreement, it is necessary to stipulate that the financial impact of enlargement must not fall to the poorest areas, who are beneath the Community average and who require sustained progress. Equally, the bill for enlargement must not fall to the richest. We must protect the whole of the enlarged Europe from any risk of impoverishment of any part of it.
We must extend paragraph 24 of the Brok report to all areas and regions of the European Union, since enlargement must not have negative repercussions for any Community territory.
I would like to say to the candidate countries that they must bear in mind that the defence of human beings, without exceptions, without discrimination, is today the backbone of the European Union. The exclusion of women, the exclusion of Romany minorities, are today the focus of our attention. There is no room in Europe for exclusion, for expulsion, for marginalisation, whether collective or individual. Europe, as from today, is entering into a new dynamic, which, since it is stronger and more powerful, must be more sensitive to its most distant and distinct elements."@en1
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