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Mr President, new cultures, including the culture of Slovenia – the country for which I am the rapporteur – will add value to and, at the same time, bring new security
for both themselves and the European family as a whole. This, then, is the time of half-full glasses, of optimism, of benefits. Of course, the time of difficulties, of half-empty glasses, will come when the governments have to attempt to win the acceptance of their people.
The European Socialists have always fought for enlargement. The countries bordering on the Mediterranean, such as Italy, which are the gateway to Central Europe, have played a major role in the process.
We are in favour of opening the doors wide to those who want to become part of the European family. Clearly, the right to become part of the club is not automatically granted: membership is won through very hard work, as the negotiators of the candidate countries are aware. I imagine that they might even, on occasion, have been disconcerted by the tough nature of the negotiations.
Slovenia is the wealthiest of the candidate countries, and it has a European institutional tradition too. The main problem in the phase of preparation for accession was speeding up the administrative aspect of court cases and resolving the problems left over from the previous regime. The situation was therefore similar to that of a number of other candidate countries but less complex.
At the time when much criticism was being expressed a number of years ago, it was always difficult to find any major sins or shortcomings in Slovenia which were not explained by the nature of daily life or by the number of people passing through the country. However, all the candidate countries, including Slovenia, will find it difficult to meet their commitments when they actually join Europe.
In any case, the reports of the international organisations on Slovenia talk of a functioning market economy and respect for the Copenhagen criteria setting the level to be achieved.
A paragraph has been included in the report which mentions combating fraud and corruption and combating drug trafficking. These are phenomena which are certainly present, but to a much lesser degree than in other countries. Mentioning them may make the text unbalanced: the best solution would be just to delete the paragraph. Moreover, out of the 102 countries in which the level of corruption has been recorded, Slovenia ranks only twenty-seventh and, what is more, organised a conference on corruption in 2002. It therefore cannot be said that nothing is being done in this area.
Lastly, on a technical note, the term ‘denationalisation’ which I used in the original text has been translated in some language versions as ‘privatisation’, which has a different meaning."@en1
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