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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2003-04-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement2
dcterms:Language	"fr"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20030409.3.3-055"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2003-04-09-Speech-3-0562
lpv:speaker	lp:Paul Marie Coûteaux2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (2002-02-06--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Rassemblement pour la France (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EDD (2001-12-11--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, we shall not get involved in contesting the individual points of the Brok report. We reject it overall for the simple reason that we reject the very principle of enlargement. There are several reasons for this. First of all, a logical reason: to us, as sovereignists, the current integration of Europe is so contrary to the interests, principles and civilisations of the nations and people of Europe, so clearly incapable of speaking with one voice in the world, as shown in the Iraqi affair, so poorly organised, weighed down by bureaucracy and, what is worse, by feudality – economic and financial feudality of all kinds – that we have come to wish that our country, France, would free itself from the Union. We cannot see why we should impose on others this infernal machine that we would reject for ourselves. There are clearly other reasons, however. The people of Europe are not ready. They are victims of their oligarchies, which are simply following international conformism which will once again lead to disaster, for we are refusing to accept the facts. Lastly, the President of the French Republic, Jacques Chirac, said, quite specifically and quite rightly, in my opinion, that the Eastern European countries and, in particular, their oligarchies, only want to move from one empire to another and essentially wish to become part of the US empire, which is the exact opposite of what we believe to be the European Union’s only raison d'être. Therefore, for all the reasons I have stated, we shall not vote for the Brok report tomorrow."@en1

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