Nigel Farage: EU bribing independent Croatia to rejoin a 'new Yugoslavia'

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• European Parliament, Brussels, 30 November 2011

• Speaker: Nigel Farage MEP, UKIP, Co-President of the EFD Group in the European Parliament (Europe of Freedom and Democracy)

• Debate: Accession Treaty: Treaty concerning the accession of the Republic of Croatia (A7-0390/2011 Hannes Swoboda): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A7-20...

Application of Croatia to become a member of the European Union
(A7-0389/2011 Hannes Swoboda): http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?type=REPORT&reference=A7-20...

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Music excerpts from Velvet Choker (Corner Stone Cues)
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Transcript:

Last September I went to Croatia. I wanted to find out whether a proper national debate is going on; whether there was afair campaign.

What did I find? I found that the EU is doing everything it can to bribe the poitical class in Croatia - doing it quite well, really, too. Already the EU has given 320 million euros to Croatia in what is called pre-accession aid. The EU has just spent a million euros on a blatant propaganda advertising campaign, telling Croatia that the EU is their only hope.

Cleverly, you've even given jobs to Croatians - highly paid jobs to Croatians in the European Parliament and in the European Commission just to show them how well off they'll be - the ruling class will be - if they join, and you've got EU flags flying on official buildings all over the country to give the impression that it's a done deal.

You've got some willing helpers, because the old Communists are still there in Croatia, they still hold all the positions of power and they will all become personally enormously wealthy if Croatia joins the European Union.

And there is an even more sinister side to this, because there is not a free press in Croatia. There is no national debate going on at all. Indeed a prize has been offered - 10,000 kunas have been offered if anybody can find an article in any Croatian newspaper suggesting that joining isn't the right thing to do.

The whole campaign is bent, corrupt and distorted. We've seen this before from the European Union, but I think it's happening on a scale in Croatia that is worse than I've seen before.

This country has for nearly a thousand years sought independence. And for 20 years they've had independence - they got out of the failed political experiment that was Yugoslavia - and if they vote to join the European Union, they're voting to rejoin a new Yugoslavia - a failing political experiment that will implode.

I hope there is, in the last month or two a debate in Croatia. Sadly, I doubt it.
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[saptemai]

as a Romanian i can only advise Croatia and Serbia to STAY AS FAR AWAY AS THEY CAN from the marxist shithole that the EU is.

they will burden your country with debt, they will tell you what to produce and what not, how much you are allowed to spend on your school and health system, your youth will leave and abandon the country and your lands will be depopulated only to be colonized by african and arab immigrants.

SAVE CROATIA. VOTE NO.

[KiwiBirdGoesSquack]

EU F- you

[brothachiken023]

hmm. Let's see, Britain is in the EU, so is France, and so is Spain. But they seem to be doing quite badly. Does anybody see a pattern here?

[rimiserk]

Fair campaign my ass, EU referendum passed only because our Foreign Minister blackmailed pensioners that if they vote NO they wont get their pensions (1 million pensioners).

[matthewmasters2612]

FUCK OFF EU. Its going to collapse. The Euro suicide pact is dead

[KarlosTheMighty]

@quantum290 : common man, every second tourist in Prague have questions like this, so its not that rare, trust me. Americans even asking if we build Prague Castle before or after communism :D

[quantum290]

@KarlosTheMighty

Those offroad and toilet stuff were extremely rare examples of a genuine idiocy (or just bad taste), and certainly not a general opinion in the west. Such irrelevant tales are always used for proving otherwise unprovable points. People in the west generaly had a pretty good picture of what was happening in our countries (sometimes better than we did).

Anyway, i'd say there's a difference between know-how to use toilet and "normal life".

[KarlosTheMighty]

@quantum290 : They dont talk about it whit nostalgy, Im just saying its necessary to be objective. Look when Germans camed here after revolution, the thougt we dont have roads so they camed in offroads, or when Czech come to London for example, they think "ou you are from postcommunist country, do you want explain how to use toilet?" I am NOT communist sympathizer, I think my message is absolutly clear.

[quantum290]

@KarlosTheMighty

As for the comparison, you should compare PPP (purchasing power parity) gdp per capita of Germany and Czech Rep. and you'll see the ratio is merely about 1.5 not 3 (and even nominal ratio is not 3 but some above 2). In the "not-so-bad" times of your parents, you could only dream about such a position.. In fact, you could hardly even dream about it.

Secondly, i was talking about the "sight", means visual perception.

[quantum290]

@KarlosTheMighty

I personally wasn't in Czechoslovakia, but in all countries under russian occupation the situation was similar (luckily for us, we didn't have that "honor" :)

Don't listen to your parents when talking about it, they're just nostalgic of their youth.. and hence heavily biased :)