Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2010-03-10-Speech-3-158"
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"Mr President, although I support much of the wording of this resolution, I wonder whether we are best placed to lecture Belarus about the inadequacies of its democracy. We complain that Belarus has a weak rubber-stamp parliament, but look around you. Here we are meekly rubber-stamping the decisions of our 27-member politburo. We complain about the fact that, although they have elections, they rig them; we, on the other hand, have referendums, hold them honestly but then disregard the result. We complain about the survival of the apparatus of the Soviet Union there and yet we maintain our common agricultural policy, our social chapter, our 48-hour week and the rest of the apparatus of euro-corporatism.
It is a small wonder that the old systemic communist parties of the COMECON states were leading the ‘yes’ campaigns when their countries applied to join the
. For some of them, in fact, it felt like coming home; I am reminded of the eerie closing pages of
where the animals look from man to pig and from pig to man and already find that they cannot tell which is which."@en1
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