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I am hoping and praying for a united, peaceful Europe. I am therefore in favour of enlarging the Union to include all the current candidate countries, including Turkey.
I abstained, however, from voting on the Brok report, because I believe that enlargement as envisaged by the report is taking place under very poor conditions. Neither the current Union nor the candidate countries are really ready. We all agree that the Treaty of Nice has not provided the Union with the necessary structures to operate properly with 25, 27 or 28 Member States.
The Convention, which should be perfecting these structures, is giving packaging priority over content. What use will there be, for example, in having a President of the European Council elected for five years with nothing to decide, as Community policies will be renationalised and intergovernmentalised? Furthermore, the recent European Council, instead of deciding on greater solidarity with the candidate countries, practically all of which have extremely serious economic and social problems to address, has actually reduced the aid package established in Berlin in 1999.
Nothing has been decided on future financing, except that CAP appropriations will be frozen after 2006 with a downward trend, in order to serve more countries with less money! The financial block is therefore scheduled to take place after enlargement. There is a great risk of the enlarged European Union simply ending up as a free trade area, with no real solidarity and therefore no European integration."@en1
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