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"Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, I would like to begin by reiterating what we in the Socialist Group in the European Parliament have been saying for months: we are entirely in favour of Rumania and Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union, and we maintain our commitment and hope that their accession may become a reality in January 2007.
We must state equally clearly that, having been carefully monitoring developments in each of the countries, we are concerned about whether their respective governments still have time to carry out the reforms and fulfil the requirements for their accession on the scheduled date.
It is time to encourage our partners to give new impetus to the said reforms in order to ensure that they are complete by the date in question. We will not accept imposing any new demands on either of the two candidate countries, nor shall we ask more of either of them than was required of our countries when we entered in our day, but neither will it be acceptable to relax any of the conditions agreed.
Henceforth, Bulgaria and Rumania are two different situations that we must assess separately according to the merits of each. It is clearly their respective governments, rather than us, who hold the key that will open up the doors of the European Union to their people. During this final phase of the process, we in Parliament and the Commission want to help rather than to hinder.
Finally, we note a differing tendency between the two countries. In Bulgaria, the political forces have been able to put together a government of national unity and everybody seems to be joining forces in order to move forward in the best possible way towards Community integration. On the other hand, it is very worrying to see in Rumania that the government appears to have embarked on an operation to harass the opposition, with a change of rules that interferes with the democratic workings of the institutions. Without evaluating the situation any further, we shall merely state that we believe that arguments amongst the country’s main political forces does not appear to be the best way to make progress on the consensus for reforms and for the negotiations with the European Union."@en1
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