Certainly we are gaining this very large market which actually will now be larger than the United States in terms of numbers of inhabitants.

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The losses are that this market, in order to have access to it, we have to comply with this enormous body of severe restrictions and severe requirements.

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Western Europe had its end of the war occurring on the eighth of May 1945.

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For us, the Second World War and its sequels will end only ... when we become members of the NATO alliance and when we can be assured of not ever being occupied again as we were by two occupying powers: Stalinist Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.

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We have achieved objective assessment of past events that so far have been neglected, we have induced Europe to think about lessons from Europe's history in a more penetrating, broader and balanced manner. We have received confirmations of understanding about the occupation period we had to endure in the past and sincere support to our further efforts to develop democracy.

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We have seen the results of appeasement. ... It is much easier to tolerate a dictator when he is dictating over somebody else's life and not your own.

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They have a choice to become citizens -- or not. It's their free choice.

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We have a great opportunity to move beyond the past and learn the lessons of that painful history.

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