Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2002-11-19-Speech-2-164"
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"Mr President, I speak as a Member of the EU-Bulgaria Joint Parliamentary Committee and also as shadow rapporteur on Romania. I will try to be brief. On the issue of Bulgaria and Romania we need a target date, a focus. Therefore I fully support the proposed target date. Also, during a recent visit to Malta I saw the wonderful work being done in connection with sexual orientation. We must not leave that out of the equation when we look at the rights of minorities. It was clear to me from the work of the Malta gay rights movement that the employment industrial relations act is not compliant with the employment framework directive, especially in relation to sexual orientation.
I welcome the positive statements on Turkey. As regards the negative statements on Turkey, I am afraid that, sadly, we have seen racism and xenophobia rear their ugly heads. We must apply the same terms, conditions and principles. We cannot be selective in the application of principles. The same principles must apply to all the candidate countries and also to the countries such as Turkey which have indicated that they wish to join the European Union. If we turn Turkey away, I believe that will be an action that we will live to regret."@en1
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