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"Mr President, the resolution on Albania contains some rather bitter pills, but this is surely entirely correct. It is quite clear that Albania needs an extensive and radical moral shake-up. Of course, we must not forget Albania’s history. I visited Albania more than 40 years ago. At that time, Enver Hoxha was dictator of his people. It was a terribly cruel dictatorship: terror, oppression and corruption, no judicial system, no freedom of the press, no freedom of opinion at all. Forty years ago, Swedish students – and not only Swedish students and intellectuals – considered Albania to be an archetypal country. It was at that time that Albania included atheism in its constitution.
I do not believe that it has been particularly easy for Sali Berisha to succeed in building this country up. That is something that we also need to have the courage to acknowledge from time to time. In my view, what is needed in a country that has been demolished and torn apart, in terms of its values, is for it to have a foundation of firm values. It is my inner hope that the Commission will focus on Albania acquiring a firm set of values, because it is only then, I believe, that it will succeed in tackling the horrific problems that it has with human trafficking and slavery. There is no greater shame for a country than that. We can talk as much as we like about economic growth and other things, but while people are being sold and treated like commodities, this is a source of shame that the Commission must make every possible effort to root out."@en1
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