Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2016-04-13-Speech-3-714-000"
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"en.20160413.44.3-714-000"2
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"Madam President, this Frankenstein – I mean Fleckenstein – report on Albania looks at their progress towards achieving the criteria that will eventually allow them to join the EU. And whilst ongoing reform in Albania is obviously welcome, I am concerned about what you said about that country, Commissioner. That really was a tale of woe, and they have obviously got a very long way to go before they can become EU members. But of course, once they are EU members, it will draw Albania into the Schengen area – already notorious for facilitating organised crime and human trafficking.
The UK has a GDP per capita approximately 10 times that of Albania and a minimum wage level and social benefit structure that will draw Albanians to Britain like an electromagnet. If I was an honest young man in Albania today, I would take English lessons and save up for a train ticket to London and pray that the Brits vote to remain in the club on 23 June 2016. If I was a criminal in Albania today, I would view EU membership as a passport to paradise. Whilst the EU sits in judgement on Albania, it presides over appalling problems within its own jurisdiction. Getting its own financial accounts satisfactorily signed off would be a good start and a good example to Albania. The lesson just never seems to be learned that making the EU bigger does not make the EU better."@en1
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