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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2002-10-09"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Adoption of the Commission report on the progress made towards enlargement2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20021009.4.3-021"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2002-10-09-Speech-3-0222
lpv:speaker	lp:Frank Vanhecke2
lpv:spokenAs	member; Delegation to the EU-Russia Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2002-02-07--2003-06-04)3,3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2003-06-04)3,3 member; Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs (2002-01-17--2003-06-04)3,3 unknown; Vlaams Blok (1999-07-20--2003-06-04)3,3 substitute; AGRI (2002-02-05--2003-06-04)3,3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Lithuania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2002-02-07--2003-06-04)3,3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, needless to say, we have always been in favour of a united and strong Europe in which each European people has its place and can retain its cultural identity. This also applies to the peoples of Eastern Europe who, for decades, lived under the Communist yoke and who for decades were unable to count on the solidarity of anyone in this hemisphere, of not a single one of the political families in this hemisphere who are now, however, all holding forth. I am therefore not opposed to the principle of European enlargement, provided that it is, of course, a European enlargement and not a small Asian enlargement to include a country such as Turkey, which does not belong to Europe, whether that is understood geographically, historically, politically or culturally. I am, however, opposed to a hurried and dogmatic enlargement such as is being prepared for today and which, I fear, is set to lead to major social, economic, cultural and social problems. Problems will arise in the current Member States, which will undoubtedly be faced with a major, fresh wave of immigration, but also in the candidate countries when their highly trained people, engineers, doctors, nurses, construction workers and many more will almost certainly, for financial reasons, leave their countries to find a better paid job elsewhere in Europe. If the free movement of persons, goods and capital will, in reality, generate more poverty, more immigration, more crime and more uprooting both in former Eastern Europe and here, then the responsible politicians should really first consider a method of guaranteeing a more harmonious unification process. Let us therefore take some time-out, let us go ahead with this enlargement, but let us admit: today, at this moment, the free movement of persons is not yet possible. If not, we are in danger of placing a time bomb under Europe which may go off more quickly than we realise, or to use La Fontaine's words: let us ensure that Europe does not await the tragic fate of the frog who at one time dreamt of being able, very quickly, to turn into an ox."@en1

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