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Madam President, the Committee on Petitions considers this report to be extremely important. Enlargement is the most exciting, difficult political challenge of this century and cannot just be addressed from an accounting perspective.
We need more political ambition and a less parochial, more global vision of politics. The quality of the European Union’s politics must be enhanced too, and the Union must become more than just a large market. Only political stature can make us credible interlocutors in the western world as difficult processes of cultural, economic and, above all, judicial integration are developed. Small-minded, petty egotism will be of no help to us; conservatism is in danger of making us introspective and isolated, with serious medium- and long-term consequences.
The enlargement process is now underway. The slow, gradual adjustments that are being made in the candidate countries, as we have heard, must not just be encouraged but supported and not just at the top but with appropriate budgetary policies in a climate of solidarity and rigour and with a view to safeguarding development and peace, if we are to avoid the danger of Eurosceptic reactions."@en1
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