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"Mr President, I ask for your patience because I am about to say something at odds with what has been said. Like every ethnocultural minority in the Union – whether native minorities, such as the Sardinians, Corsicans, Basques or Gaels, or legal immigrants – the Roma ethnic group also deserves every consideration. Precisely like the communities mentioned, however, the Roma community must also be subject to the rules of social coexistence and of mutual respect for the social order.
I do not know, at least from personal experience, whether or not and in what way Gypsies are integrated in Romania and Bulgaria. They are in my country, however, where the police cannot enter Travellers’ camps, where the health authorities cannot give treatment or carry out inspections, and where it is impossible to tackle non-attendance at school, conduct a census of the residents, check children’s living conditions and the legitimacy of parental authority, or supervise respect for
gender differences and human rights, and I could go on for hours.
The Commission wants measures to provide jobs for the Roma community. These and other intolerable privileges are supported by five motions for resolutions tabled by all the groups, from the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats to the extreme left. With the certainty of representing millions of European Union citizens at least in this matter, we reject both the Commission’s declaration and the motions for resolutions, which are idiotic, stuffed full of rhetoric and racist towards the people of Europe. You Members who tabled these proposals should explain to the people why you demand that they fulfil duties and only secondarily let them enjoy rights. You should explain to them why you do not give them priority for homes or jobs or grant them impunity.
Owing to the taxes levied on the pockets of properly registered citizens, we are called upon here to represent first the interests and feelings of these European citizens and then, and only then, to pontificate on imaginary acts of discrimination."@en1
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