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"Mr President, the way in which the European Union has evolved from being essentially a trading organisation into a political one is reflected in the higher and more exacting standards applied to each new accession round. It is no longer a question of countries being able to sustain the obligations of the free market; we are increasingly making demands that touch on their judicial systems and their foreign policies. I will take the same attitude to Serbia that I took to Croatian accession and that I would take to any of the other South Slavic or Balkan countries.
If I were Serbian, I would be very reluctant to surrender the advantages of a relatively educated workforce and relatively cheap exports to assimilate the corpus of EU social and employment law, but that is their decision. If they vote to join, I will support it, as I did in the case of Croatia. I do have to wonder, though, at the lack of historical imagination here on our side that, in this centenary year of the Austro-Hungarian Memorandum to Serbia, we think nothing of making it a precondition that Serbia puts foreign powers in charge of its judicial system."@en1
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