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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, it is typical that the issues raised in this question relating to the previous enlargement are being debated the day before the final decisions are taken on the Financial Perspective for 2007-2013. It comes as no surprise to us that Members from the old EU Member States have asked for a country-by-country analysis of the financial consequences of the last enlargement, and we are aware that these questions are also an indication of the fact that people expect the Commission to monitor and assess the consequences of any future enlargements. I am very much in favour of questions of this kind being asked, yet at the same time I should like to alert this House to the need to consider not only the costs and liabilities that show up on the balance sheet, but also the benefits derived by the old EU Member States. These benefits include
a growth in trade, in capital investment and in the market for large-scale procurement, as well as greater environmental protection, and it is quite likely that some countries have derived more benefits than others. Rigorous financial analysis is indispensable, but we must not encourage those who see the European Union merely in terms of costs and liabilities. It should also be seen in terms of the benefits it provides on the basis of fairly distributed costs."@en1
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