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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to know whether the Roma themselves are interested in the European Union’s integration strategy. The Roma are by their very nature and their own admission a separate ethnic group, with very different rules, organisation and traditions from our own. They choose to live on the margins of society so that they can act freely according to their own rules, and conforming to our regulations is the last of their concerns.
In Tuscany, the region I come from, a number of agreed repatriations were carried out, paid for out of everyone’s pockets. After agreeing to these repatriations – with ample compensation – these Roma people returned to the very same sites that they had left, making fools of everyone and the region most of all.
Besides, one cannot expect much from a culture in which theft is tolerated, if not actually admired. I therefore think it is pointless to carry on with this misguided European do-goodism. Over the centuries, history has taught us the true nature of the Roma."@en1
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