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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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Video Source: EbS - European Parliament
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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Jak Wam się sąsiedzi zyje z euro? czy korona byłaby lepsza? Co z pomocą dla Grecji (a raczej dla banków, które pożyczyły pieniądze Grecji)?
kowalczykjanek100 2 months ago
@kowalczykjanek100 It is contraproductive. Euro helped us in start of crisis and also delivered some investors mostly from south korea because of cheap working power and itself but as the time goes by. The prices of basic products have growth about 40% from its old prices and now the problem with eurozone. I think it was a not good decision to introduce euro into slovakia, also investors from korea are now not looking as good deal because of working conditions and low salary.
Sklb 1 month ago
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dime363 2 months ago
@dime363 oops repaired
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