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"In official speeches, everyone welcomes enlargement of the EU from 15 to 30 Member States, but that objective is receding ever further, and more and more obstacles are being placed in the path of the unification of Europe’s nation States. The Feira Summit will give the green light particularly to close cooperation between the most developed and the most federally minded nations. They will create a State within the State and make decisions on behalf of everyone else. The pattern is familiar from holding companies where a small majority runs a company which, in turn, runs another company. In the EU, there is a Franco-German axis which will set the pace for a core EU which, in turn, will make decisions in the EU as a whole, as well as dictating legislation to the candidate States and, moreover, adopting legislation right under the noses of all the other nations of Europe. Human rights, the arts, transport and foreign and security policy could also become areas for which European bodies such as the Council of Europe and the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe are responsible. The common market could also, of course, be opened up to all European countries. Nations such as the Baltic and Baltic Sea countries and the countries around the Mediterranean could also join together in different regional groups. It ought to be possible for countries to remain outside those aspects of European cooperation they are better off without, as long as they do not in that way arrogate particular economic advantages to themselves. It ought also to be possible for some countries to enter into especially close cooperation but, if this is to happen within the EU’s institutions, everyone must be asked. Otherwise, cooperation must take place elsewhere. My group rejects majority decision-making on enhanced cooperation. We are in favour of greater flexibility, but we have no use for a self-appointed
to take the decisions on our behalf. I also think that the sanctions against Austria ought to be lifted."@en1
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