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"Mr President, for the first time in the five years that I have been in the European Parliament, I voted against the report on Macedonia’s accession to the European Union. Why? I previously voted in favour because, in spite of all the problems, I thought that doing this might give some encouragement to the country to carry out reforms.
The five-year period that I have been an MEP is more or less equivalent to half the time the process takes for a country to join the Union at the normal rate of progress. This is a long time, yet all the while people who consider themselves Bulgarian continue to be persecuted in Macedonia and the hate talk continues in the media, schoolbooks, films and in any way sponsored by the State.
I find such actions unacceptable and I can no longer continue to support a country which, in my view, does not meet the political criteria, undertaking such actions against a neighbouring country and even against its own citizens, especially as we have also seen that freedom of speech is being affected, which is a change for the worse and not the better."@en1
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