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"I have not been very positive about the resolutions on the enlargement of the European Union to include the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Iceland and Bosnia and Herzegovina. How can we gladly welcome new countries into the costly and ineffective gasworks that is the European Union? From the outside, they often see only an appearance of prosperity in which they want to participate. From the inside, we have to put up with its bureaucratic and pointlessly restrictive aspects. We continue to negotiate Iceland’s accession, demanded by opportunism at the height of the Icelandic banking crisis, even though the vast majority of people are opposed to it, as next year’s referendum will undoubtedly show. We want the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia to join the European Union quickly and prematurely, without having resolved any of the conflicts that those countries may have with their neighbours, including EU Member States, and without talking about their lack of preparation from an economic, legal and administrative perspective and the confrontational relations between their ethnic and religious communities, which we are going to import. In short, this headlong rush, in the midst of a crisis, while the EU’s absorption capacity is far from proven, is worse than an error: it is faulty."@en1
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