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"Mr President, Commissioner, the previous speakers have forgotten to tell us what the real situation is in Bulgaria and Romania during the accession procedure.
Real unemployment in Bulgaria and Romania is terrifyingly high. Huge industrial and livestock units are closing. Traditional crops, such as vines and tobacco, have fallen apart or are on the road to destruction. Even infrastructure works such as irrigation works have fallen apart. Almost all the irrigation pipes, water channels and irrigation stations and their equipment have been destroyed.
In Bulgaria, for example, overall agricultural production has fallen by more than 50% so that the products of the multinationals of Europe, whose interests you defend, can be sold.
With the restoration of the right to own land, the average size is 1.5 hectares or 15 decares, a very small allotment with, hence, zero margin for efficient cultivation. Thus, you will buy them for nothing, for a loaf of bread. The multinationals of Europe will buy up land in Bulgaria and Romania. However, you do not say as much, so that the invitees from Bulgaria and Romania can hear you, although of course they know all this.
The health and education system is breaking down. The Romanian Government, Commissioner, has the objective today of achieving the standard of living of 1989, which you condemned.
You talk of democratic freedoms, of rights, but you say nothing about the legislative ban on the action of the communist party in Romania. You say nothing about the unprecedented prison sentence being served since February 1999 by the president of the Confederation of Romanian Miners' Unions, Miron Cosma, who was imprisoned for defending the interests of the miners being made redundant by the thousand.
This situation also has consequences for Greece. As wages are very cheap, this precise situation results in companies relocating to these countries, especially from the area of northern Greece, in order to increase their profits. Thus, the Bulgarian and Romanian workers, faced with the spectre of hunger, are forced to work for slave wages and, at the same time, there is pressure on workers in Greece.
So welcome to the European Union, the land of promise, of 20 million unemployed, of 50 million in poverty, the European Union that crushes the rights of the workers so that big business can make untold fortunes."@en1
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