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"en.20111201.35.4-358-000"2
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"Croatia is, without doubt, a European country by dint of its geography, culture, history and population. We should all welcome the fact that we have been able to maintain a close relationship with the country. However, the European project as it stands cannot be the framework for this relationship. It is, in fact, developing into a centralised, supranational state, bypassing the peoples and the national parliaments, imposing its ultraliberal, globalist diktats, and conferring on itself the right to dictate the budgets of the Member States and, as a consequence, all of their actions, with its eyes firmly fixed on satisfying the markets rather than on people’s wellbeing. I understand the symbolic value, for the people of Croatia, of accession to the European Union. However, I also know that they will soon become disenchanted. The benefits that they will derive from membership will be far fewer than they had hoped, and the restrictions far more intolerable than they had expected. Ask the Greeks, the Irish and the Portuguese what they think about it now. I would not sell any of my friends a ticket to board the Titanic. That is why I abstained."@en1
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