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"en.20021120.3.3-145"2
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"The recitals conceal a situation which, overall, is disastrous, characterised in all the countries concerned by widening social and regional chasms and a vast increase in poverty and unemployment. Unemployment is the only one of these points to be raised. These regressions and their causes are completely hidden in order to give the impression that the only problems encountered arise from previous regimes or the poor implementation of liberal formulas. It is, however, the very nature of the policies imposed by the EU that is the primary cause. We also reject the positive assessment of NATO extension. The enlargement of the EU is therefore presented as a hypocritical ‘institutional step forward’ with no social rights, no development of common public assets or any real democratic choice. This assessment, however, concerns European integration as a whole. Statements on the ‘historic’ nature of European enlargement are not accompanied by any of the budgetary resources or democratic procedures that would allow quality of life and citizens’ rights to be improved in order to standardise them effectively throughout Europe.
We believe it is the responsibility of the citizens of Eastern Europe to decide whether this deterioration in their situation could be fought more effectively by staying out of the Union or joining it."@en1
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