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Mr President, I will be brief. I have heard many positive remarks, most of which I agree with. Of course, there were also many concerns expressed, many of which I also agree with.
There were some critical remarks, with which I do not agree, from Mr Ferber, Mr Lagendijk and others, that Romania is not ready to close the negotiations. I emphasise that we, as a presidency and as a Council, base our position on the assessment of the European Commission.
Romania is not ready for accession, which is why we feel it is important to have two more years to achieve the whole framework for the negotiations, as we discussed before, with extra guarantees and extra safeguards.
In response to Mr Lagendijk's remarks, we do not need unanimity in the Council for using this extra safeguard clause – the possibility of postponing the accession for a maximum of a year. No, precisely in the area of justice and home affairs which he mentions – as many members did – and also in the sensitive area of competition, we only need a qualified majority for using the extra safeguard clause.
The rapporteur, Mr Moscovici, Mr Meijer and others made some remarks about signals from Romania that the president-elect wants to renegotiate the results. The president-elect seems to have noticed critical remarks about the idea of reopening some chapters. We learned from Bucharest that Mr Basescu is emphasising the efforts to be made before January 2007, which leave no room for reopening the final results of the negotiations.
In a short reply to Mr Ferber about the financial consequences of accession, I repeat what I said about Bulgaria. The financial consequences are already arranged in the financial package for 2007-2009, irrespective of the new financial perspective.
Let me conclude with my compliments to Mr Moscovici. His report addresses all the important areas in a constructive and even-handed way."@en1
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