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"en.20030409.4.3-210"2
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"As a member of the delegation for relations with Slovakia, I know the problems of that country in more detail than those of other accession countries. I see unstable political parties emerge and disappear, a largely collapsed economy with mass unemployment in the east and the refusal of successive governments to rectify wrongs previously committed against members of national minorities. The new division into provinces takes absolutely no account of the fact that the southern edge of Slovakia is Hungarian speaking and that most people there want to have administration and education in that language. The villages in the east occupied by a majority of people from the Roma population group are still administered by a Slovakian elite that thinks that street lighting, waterworks and parks are only for themselves. It may be that many people from Slovakia will choose to seek work in nearby Vienna. With the arrival of Slovakia the EU is importing the environmental problems of the nuclear power stations and the Danube dam. Yet accession to the EU is far less controversial in internally divided Slovakia than in the neighbouring countries of Poland and the Czech Republic, where the majority will perhaps shortly vote against in a referendum. Various groups are expecting improvement as a result of this accession. As far back as 5-9-2001 I expressed the expectation that they will be disappointed, but I respect their choice."@en1
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