En 1991, c'étaient les Croates, coupables alors d'un double crime, celui de se libérer du carcan fédéral et communiste de la Yougoslavie.
In 1991, it was the Croatians, guilty then of the double crime of freeing themselves from the federal and communist straitjacket of Yugoslavia.
Déjà en 1991, les dirigeants européens avaient refusé de reconnaître l'indépendance de ce pays qui se libérait alors du carcan fédéral et socialiste yougoslave.
As far back as 1991 Europe's leaders had refused to recognize the independence of that country, which was then freeing itself from the federal and socialist yoke of Yugoslavia.
Rappelons cependant ici que nous étions mûs principalement par une croyance en la légitimité du carcan fédéral, serbo-communiste, serbo-bolchevique, comme j'aime dire.
But we should bear in mind that we were motivated mainly by a belief in the legitimacy of the federal, Serbo-communist, Serbo-bolshevik yoke, as I prefer to call it.
Il reste cependant une issue pour ces deux peuples. Sortir du carcan fédéral, comme l'ont fait les peuples d'Europe centrale, et comme veulent le faire nos nations, étouffées progressivement par Bruxelles.
There is however one way out for these two peoples: getting rid of the federal strait-jacket, just as the peoples of central Europe did, and as our countries - progressively being suffocated by Brussels - want to do.
Monsieur le Président, nul plus que nous, qui avons tout fait pour aider les peuples de l'exYougoslavie à se libérer du carcan fédéral communiste, ne se réjouit de la paix et de l'indépendance retrouvées par les nations slovène et croate.
Mr President, no one more than we, who have done everything to help the people of the former Yugoslavia break free from the Communist federal yoke, rejoices in the peace and independence found by the Slovenian and Croatian nations.
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