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In two months’ time, the EU will be gaining ten new Member States. Although last year’s decisions make enlargement a certainty, the Brok Report lists 148 areas of concern, and the addition of still more such areas is proposed in the form of amendments, some of them tabled by myself. It would appear from the texts that some Members of this House are primarily concerned about the failed privatisations, the sluggish tempo at which all barriers to the free market are being removed, and what they see as the excessively high level of public expenditure. I disagree with them very strongly. In reality, these countries have already given in to many unreasonable and unwise demands, which means that their problems can only get worse in the future. The price they have had to pay for accession to the EU will prevent them from meeting their people’s expectations, which will constitute a threat to democracy. Others are more concerned about the desperate situation of the millions of Roma, about the marginalisation of the Russian minority in the Baltic states, the continuing discrimination against homosexuals, the introduction of electoral laws intended to exclude smaller political movements and the serious lack of concern for the environment. I endorse these criticisms and will continue to do so even after these countries’ accessions."@en1
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