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"Mr President, the quantitative accession criteria are simple and measurable. However, it is difficult to measure the qualitative criteria, the criteria at the core of the politicisation of the enlargement exercise. This is the fault of Europe, for failing to clarify the qualitative criteria in an objective, reliable and functional manner, for failing to lay down the political geography, its political limits, and for failing to define the dialectic ratio between deepening and enlarging. If these major questions had been answered, we would not have the dilemma of Turkey, there would not be the uncertainty of the prospects of the Western Balkans and there would not be the speculation about Bulgaria and Romania. The crucial time for evaluating the readiness for accession of the two countries was when the accession acts were signed. Since then, the special transitional time for political, institutional and administrative adjustment has been correctly granted and extended. The remarks in the report about the state of accession readiness of the two countries presented today by the Commission are also correct. In all events, we must not overlook the fact that the rate of acceptance of the in Bulgaria and Romania has been stepped up. Under no circumstances must it be the Union that disappoints the citizens of the two countries. The principle of there being no automatic link between candidacy and accession, to which I subscribe, cannot be a belated claim, an claim. Bulgaria, Romania and the Union of the 25 must up the ante, step up efforts and demonstrate a convergent and creative political will to make the Europe of the 27 a reality on 1 January 2007. If nothing else, the geopolitical and geo-economic restoration of the historical unity of Europe so dictates."@en1
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