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". The enlargement process is without doubt a great adventure. Yet up to this point it has been reduced to the rank of a commercial-style takeover bid or a company merger, instead of being a major event in history, reuniting all the Christian peoples of Europe at a time when the secular enemy once again is threatening the south. Within this framework of a camp of freedom and light, pitched against a camp of integrationist obscurantism, Ukraine and Russia, the advanced guard of the West, would have comfortably found their place. The result of this derisory technical fudging of a political issue at the summit is the expression ‘acquis communautaire’. In around thirty chapters, from agriculture to taxation, via the environment, SMEs, education and transport, the laws of the candidate countries, their administrations, their sociologies and even their morals are being closely examined with a police-style scrutiny that must remind these former countries suffused with a proletarian morality of heavy-handed practices that have still not been forgotten. Such states are also seeing their penal codes criticised as an obstacle to their accession, because they forbid certain sexual practices. Many have received lectures on their levels of fraud and corruption, as if European VAT has not been, since 1993, a major factor for serious tax fraud. Malta is even being reproached for attracting too many offshore companies because of its favourable tax laws. As if Ireland has not been guilty of this with the CSFs and as if the United States does not practice this system on an enormous scale; a practice condemned by the World Trade Organisation, but tolerated by Europe that will climb down as many rungs as is necessary in its submission to the empire. At no time has enlargement been the opportunity for a dialogue on experiences and the sharing of success stories. Poland has good reason to point our that its agricultural heritage will be open to a European heritage of 8 million animals slaughtered for foot-and-mouth disease or BSE and 136 000 people incubating the fatal atypical Creutzfeld-Jakob disease. Instead of enriching and preserving the heritage of the vegetable and animal biodiversity of these Eastern countries, not to mention their heritage of social relations that have not yet been broken by this ultra-capitalist savagery, the European Commission debases this historic meeting to the level of an unconditional annexation. An in fact. This explains why the dossier has been entrusted to a German Commissioner and the European Parliament report to a member who is, as if by chance, also German. Things are, it is true, clearer than ever. There is enlargement of course, but as in 1990, it is still German. The 1945 brackets are being closed. The Empire is rebuilding itself. is here, everlasting in its geography and its history."@en1
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