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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am a liberal democrat both in Europe and in Italy. Sometimes, however, in my country, my fellow party members and I are called communists merely for opposing the current government.
It seems that the same thing is now happening to our colleagues in Bulgaria, with liberal democrats and socialists being called criminals simply because they represent an opposition force in their country. We disapprove of this move, because if it is a joke, then it really should only be a short one. Behaviour of this kind can become really dangerous in the end.
In addition, after everything that has happened in Egypt and Tunisia, only yesterday, the Italian Foreign Minister visited Damascus in Syria and called it ‘a democratic country that completely satisfies its citizens’ need for modernisation’.
If our representatives make speeches like this, it is our duty as Members of the European Parliament to denounce them and the Commission must keep a close watch."@en1
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