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"Mr President, 10 new Member States joined the European Union in 2004. The accession process was preceded by negotiations where the priority accorded to general interests pushed a good number of issues to the back burner. One such issue was the legal implications of the discriminative Beneš decrees in Czechoslovakia. The decrees created after the war laid the foundations for applying the principle of collective guilt and the shameful practice of ethnic cleansing. We cannot definitively declare that the decrees have no legal impact today as the courts have had to interpret them on many occasions. I understand that back then the European Union, in good faith, did not want to erect any barriers to the accession of the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
However, the EU had to assume that this outstanding issue infringing the rights of European Union citizens would have to be resolved at some time. The EU plays a leading role around the world in protecting human rights, and it should be no different at home. I call upon those responsible to examine the legal inconsistencies that cast a shadow over the creation of a fair Europe. All EU citizens, minorities and nations should finally feel equal in the Union."@en1
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