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"Mr President, the Commission’s decision to leave Lithuania out of the eurozone and the related opportunities for rapid integration with those better advanced was based on a formal notification concerning a breach by Lithuania’s economy of the inflation rate limit, indeed with a minimal and disputed drop margin.
The Government in Vilnius fell yesterday, burdened as it was by greater mistakes and failures than a lack of special concern and cautiousness over keeping the inflation programme on a positive margin, avoiding the risk of getting negative zero-comma-commas. It should not just toe the line on the European stage, especially while being new and not big.
Here I have to state, unfortunately, that unequal treatment of Member States is evident at high levels of EU management, including the Commission. When two larger Member States did not comply with the Stability Pact – and it was not a drop margin, as in Lithuania’s case – those larger states were not blamed or punished, but on the contrary blessed. The financial misbehaviour was not changed – the law was changed so that it complied with misbehaviour. In our case, the Commission did not punish our former Government; rather, the entire nation was pushed aside.
Moreover, something bad happened with the eastern border of the EU after Russia broke the obligatory signature of President Putin under the 2003 Summit commitment to the EU to finalise agreements with Estonia and Latvia very soon. Russia even denounced a document already ratified by the Estonian Parliament. The position of the EU appeared rather shameful: instead of standing by its Member State, the EU instead appeased Russia, leaving Estonia to cope alone with Big Brother again.
I would like to see my country, Lithuania, acceding not only to the eurozone, but also to the common European area of energy security. In the case of the eurozone, the European Parliament adopted some positive opinions in amendments critical of the Commission and therefore I changed my mind and voted in favour of Mr Langen’s report."@en1
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