Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2003-04-09-Speech-3-066"
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"Mr President, the June Movement wants to allow the candidate countries to decide for themselves whether they wish to be part of the EU. We are therefore voting in favour of enlargement today, but we would recommend that the conditions be renegotiated. The agricultural agreement would make the new countries desperately dependent and make it difficult to abolish what amount to lunatic arrangements where agriculture is concerned. The agreement would force the candidate countries to sell agricultural land and summer houses, even though the price of land in the Netherlands is 30 times what it is in Poland. The new countries would have to pay the full quota, while my own country, rich though it is, was given an 80% rebate in the first year. The majority of inhabitants of the poor countries would become net contributors, even though they are the people whom we are supposed to help.
The Treaty of Nice and the EU regulations have not been published in the languages of the candidate countries. It is a democratic scandal that the candidate countries are in no position to know what they are voting on and that the Commission devises propaganda instead of making factual information available. Those of us in the rich countries should be more generous towards our poor neighbours so that they might have something to thank us for and so that I might not just vote in favour but do so with gratitude while welcoming a Europe of democracies."@en1
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