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"If Croatia, Serbia-Montenegro, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia and Albania ever in the future fulfil all the criteria for membership of the EU, they should be welcomed as Members. The European Parliament should not, however, adopt a position on a Framework Agreement before there is a clear basis for the financial commitments to be provided by such an agreement to other Member States. The document concerned should also show what types of aid and entitlements a Framework Agreement would entail.
Experience of previous Framework Agreements shows that a ‘yes’ vote creates political pressure from then on to support every conceivable form of aid and subsidy. Up until now, it has often been a question of getting countries used to an EU system that should be reformed. Various forms of aid for adaptation to, for example, the EU’s agricultural system is just one example. Neither the EU nor potential Member States are helped in the long run by adaptation to a system that creates dependence upon subsidies. I have therefore voted against the report and hope that the Commission will come back with a financial calculation and a basic document that clearly defines what forms of aid would be made available once a Framework Agreement had been signed."@en1
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