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"I voted against this report on the EU’s enlargement policies and criteria. The report is based on the Copenhagen criteria, which include the objective of ‘a functioning market economy and the capacity to cope with competition and market forces in the EU’. This says all there is to say about the main objective of European integration, and there is no question of my supporting these policies, whose consequences become more visible to us every day. Moreover, I condemn the hypocrisy of this report, which states that enlargement facilitates respect for human rights – the poor relation of the Copenhagen criteria – and particularly their monitoring after accession. If this is the case, how do we explain the impunity enjoyed by Mr Orbán’s Government in Hungary? I deplore the fact that the system for imposing sanctions in the event of a human rights violation, as provided by Article 7 of the Treaty on European Union, is totally closed off by the Member States, that its implementation is a matter for the Council alone and that the Council requires unanimity to implement it, which effectively makes the provision entirely unenforceable. To claim to enforce human rights in candidate countries when it is impossible to do so in Member States is intolerable."@en1
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