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"Mr President, I am sorry but I can only describe the Summit of Seville as a huge missed opportunity and I am even more sorry to have to say that once again, the Belgian Prime Minister, Mr Verhofstadt is partly to blame for sabotaging the opportunity finally to do something about this gigantic asylum and immigration problem, even though a huge majority of the people in all European Member States want this problem to be tackled, as was borne out in recent election results, for example.
I am also sorry to have to say that we are marching on just as blindly towards EU enlargement to include Europe’s former Eastern bloc countries. Although I am personally and as a matter of fundamental principle in favour of enlargement, this cannot simply be done without first taking all the necessary measures, thus ensuring that enlargement does not cause a mass migration towards the west.
Meanwhile, the Irish people are going to the polling stations once again. We already know, however, that if, by accident, they were not to vote ‘yes’, their ‘no’ vote will simply be discounted. Does it actually surprise anyone that this European Union is increasingly being considered somewhat undemocratic by an increasing number of citizens and that people are turning away in droves, which is regrettable?"@en1
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