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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I would first of all like to wish the incoming Cypriot Presidency all the very best; the circumstances are not easy, neither from a financial nor from a political point of view. I can guarantee it will have the full support of me and my party in staving off any Turkish pressure, as has been the case in the recent past.
Europe – perhaps out of wretched self-interest – is pretending not to see what is still happening in Cyprus. I visited you several months ago and was able to see first hand the historical, cultural and religious destruction wrought by the Turkish invaders in the north of the island. Cyprus has requested financial support to overcome this crisis.
Meanwhile, between 2007 and 2013 the EU gave some EUR 5 billion to Turkey, a country with strong economic growth to which the European Investment Bank last year also granted loans in excess of EUR 2 billion. Perhaps Europe – the European Union – should first think about its own Member States, rather than help those that actually threaten them."@en1
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