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"Mr President, the British Prime Minister, having barely taken over the Presidency of the Council, has said that he does not care about the 4% of the population who are farmers, who produce 2% of gross income. However, not every European lives in Mayfair in London or on the Champs Elysées in Paris or on the Via Veneto in Rome. There are a great many Europeans who live in the regions, in rural areas.
In my country, which was one of the first to join the European Union, the situation is tragic. Factories are closing, people are shopping in neighbouring countries, unemployment has reached peak levels in Europe, we have two and a half million illegal immigrants, more than Italy, which has a population of 45 million; the situation is dramatic.
We are not begging. We are asking that you secure the borders of Greece, the borders of Europe. There are 40 to 50 illegal entries a day. This has forced us to spend USD 5.2 billion on equipment. If we had spent this money on agriculture, if we had spent it on factories, we would not today need to ask Mr Blair for money. Save us, please, from the threats from Turkey."@en1
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