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There are plenty of arguments as to why we should reject the ten countries whose governments wish to accede to the EU. Some, such as Slovakia, Hungary and Romania, discriminate against the large Roma populations there. There have been complaints against Hungary and Cyprus for discrimination against homosexuals. Poland, just as Ireland once did, wants to retain the freedom to deny women the right to
for all eternity. Estonia and Lithuania have tried to deny equal rights to their large Russian minority, whom they hold responsible for the former occupation. Cyprus could involve the European Union in a war against Turkey. The current Member States are furthermore complaining about corruption, labour migration and the high cost of relief funds. I believe that it is at least as important that these countries are being subjected to a neoliberal
that public services are breaking down and large sections of the population are being condemned to the long-term perpetuation of the poverty that has arisen over the past ten years. Yet it is the inhabitants of these countries, and no one else, who must determine whether they want to belong to the European Union. They are being given the opportunity to speak out on this in referendums everywhere except in Cyprus. I do not want to take that right away from them in order to protect ourselves or by knowing what is good for them better than they do themselves. By rejecting the Brok Report, I am upholding my agreement with enlargement, which I announced on 20 November 2002."@en1
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