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"Mr President, unfortunately, I am having to speak, once again, about the situation of the Polish minority in a Member State of the European Union – Lithuania. It might seem that if a state does belong to the European Union it should observe all European standards. However, Vilnius is not doing this.
There is still no agreement in Lithuania over bilingual street names in places where the Polish population is not so much a minority as a majority. There are significant problems over the operation of education with Polish as the medium of instruction. As a result of action taken by the Lithuanian education authorities, around 100 Polish school classes are to be closed. Recently, significant restrictions have been imposed on artistic groups which propagate Polish culture.
There is a strange imbalance here, because Lithuanians in Poland are guaranteed all their rights and receive large subsidies from the Polish state budget. It is time for an elementary and civilised response. It is time international organisations, including our own European Parliament, took up the matter of discrimination against Poles in Lithuania."@en1
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