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"Mr President, I am in favour of the enlargement of the European Union to include the whole of geographical Europe and beyond, but if the major powers that dominate the European Union enlarge it, it is not out of generosity. Their industrial and financial groups have already got a grip on the economy of Eastern European countries and enlargement is the ideal means whereby this grip may be tightened. Accession to the European Union will not protect the workers of these countries against unemployment that is already high, the low wages or the reduction of social protection schemes and will not prevent peasant farmers from being driven from their land. These countries will not be integrated into the European Union as equals, but as subordinates subject to the decisions of the major powers and the domination of large employers in France, Germany or England. The workers will have to work for Western companies, earning noticeably less than the already inadequate salaries of their Western counterparts .
Furthermore, it is indeed scandalous to note that, for several years, the citizens of these countries will not be able to enjoy the same rights to movement and settlement enjoyed by current EU citizens. That is why when these countries join the European Union, I shall welcome the workers and the working classes and express the hope that in future struggles to change our lot, we shall be fighting side by side."@en1
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