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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, only in early October, the Romanian Prime Minister, Mr Popescu, stated that the enormous increase in organised crime in Bulgaria is at risk of jeopardising the accession of both countries in 2007 and that the safeguard clause will have to be applied to defer their accession until 1 January 2008.
Popescu’s statements have now been corroborated by the Commission, whose report states, in black and white, that corruption in both countries – not, therefore, only in Bulgaria – has taken on such dimensions that it is putting at risk the future of the EU’s internal market and the programmes funded by the EU. With regard to reforming the judiciary and administration, there are very few improvements noticeable, which means that corruption is running riot.
Bulgaria and Romania are European countries that, just like the other Central and Eastern European countries, are entitled to join the Union, but they do need to be ready to do so. We cannot admit countries that have no rule of law to speak of. The Commission itself admits that countries that are, partly at least, in the grip of organised crime could damage the European internal market. They should certainly not join in 2007, nor, probably, in 2008."@en1
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