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"The Brok report urges Member States and candidate countries to make the effort required to conclude the accession negotiations at the end of this year so that the accession treaties might be signed in about April 2003 with a view to ten new countries’ joining in 2004. We heartily approve of such a move.
At the Berlin Council in 1999, six candidate countries had in fact been expected to join the EU in 2002. Well, here we are in 2002, and no country has joined. We cannot continue like this. As I shall state in my explanation of vote on the Böge report, we have to break down the last barriers while retaining a sense of what is realistic.
In any case, there is at least one problem that is not really a problem: the non-ratification of the Treaty of Nice by the Irish people. If, by chance they were again to reject this faulty treaty in a second referendum (despite the blandishments of the Seville Council, with its teasing declaration of respect for Irish military neutrality), enlargement would not be compromised for all that. It would be enough to include the relevant parts of the Treaty of Nice in the future accession treaty. Moreover, the opportunity could be taken to revise them, which would be no bad thing."@en1
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