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"Mr President, I would like to bring to the attention of this House the findings of a visit I made to Romania to look in particular at the situation of babies and young adults with handicaps in institutional care. This is an area where the European Union could perhaps be doing more to push the Romanian authorities to increase the pace of reform. For example, last year 4600 babies were abandoned in maternity hospitals. Some were reunited with their families but many remain there. I lifted up a little boy of 18 months who had never been outside a maternity hospital. This is not something we want to see. We need emergency fostering in Romania and we need the European Union to push for that.
In relation to the institutional care of adults with handicaps, I visited an institution where 450 people were living in awful conditions, unacceptable to us here in the European Union. Some progress is being made but more could be done if we put greater pressure on the Romanian authorities. I would ask that we all do that."@en1
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