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"Mr President, Mr Kohlíček has just claimed that we are not giving any money to Serbia. A tremendous amount of money is going to Serbia. The minorities who are oppressed there include not only Hungarians and Croats, but also, sadly, Czechs, Germans, Slovaks, Poles and many other nationalities besides, who for centuries formed that prosperous miniature Europe that Mr Meijer described so impressively just now. We are therefore all in the same boat, so to speak, and as Europeans it is our duty to help the many minorities in that country. At present, this flourishing miniature Europe is being systematically destroyed by a nationalistic policy that begins by undermining autonomy, thereby striking not only at the minorities but also at Vojvodina’s long established Serb community, which has always been in favour of reform. Weakening Vojvodina’s reform-minded European Serbs is what these measures are actually intended to do. Secondly, there is a deliberate policy of settling immigrants in the minorities’ communities in order to destroy those communities by quickly getting a new Radical Party mayor elected and suddenly outvoting the established population. The teacher training colleges – for which we have given money – are not being established, with the flimsy excuse that the region is unable to set up any accounts. All these things are unacceptable. They are trying to drive the young generation of minorities out of the country, to force the administration into line with central government and to create a nationalistic atmosphere in which the minorities take flight. We do not want that, and that is why we must take a clear stand against it."@en1

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