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"Mr President, I am not a football fan so I am probably not good at football rules, but I take it as my personal political duty, as a Member of the European Parliament from the Czech Republic, to add some comments on the subject of Bulgaria and Romania.
First, regarding the findings on political criteria, in my opinion the report should give necessary public administration reform, prosecution of high-level corruption and the fight against trafficking in human beings a lower profile. All the members of the public in this Chamber observing the debate must believe that Bulgaria and Romania are countries totally based on corruption, which is obviously not true. In my opinion we should do something about our European public administration reform and almost legendary EU red tape. I recommend that the high-level corruption wording, as used in the report, be only used in a very careful and limited way.
The part of the report concerning economic criteria is exceptionally sensitive. When we compare economic performance in the eurozone and the economic performance of Bulgaria and Romania, we can only envy their courage in undergoing deep economic reforms with stunning results. However, what is worth mentioning in the reform is the labour market. Unfortunately that is not so much a debate about Romania and Bulgaria as a profound debate about the unwillingness of the western European labour markets to open up to the free movement of labour from Eastern and Central Europe.
In my opinion, that is a message for the citizens here in the visitors’ gallery: the European Union does not have the keys to Europe."@en1
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