Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-12-14-Speech-3-161"
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am speaking on behalf of the new Italian Socialist Party.
I have already made my support for Romania’s accession clear on more than one occasion. I am sad to see, however, that no progress has yet been made on the issue of the international adoptions that were pending at the time of the 2001 moratorium, despite Parliament’s repeated recommendations and the statements of willingness from the government in Bucharest. On 14 January 2005, to be specific, the Romanian Prime Minister assured the Italian press that all pending cases of international adoption would be analysed one by one by a committee of international experts. To date, however, as far as I know, neither the families involved nor the European Union itself have been informed about the working party’s procedures or the conclusions it has reached.
When I asked the European Commission, it was unable in fact to offer me any clarification, and I was also disappointed with the replies I received from Commissioner Rehn to my enquiries. He defended the current Romanian law, which nobody is questioning, without giving any undertaking to resolve the cases that were pending prior to the entry into force of that law, as expressly requested by Parliament.
I myself have also addressed the Romanian Government through its ambassador in Brussels, but it has not given me any useful information or cooperation either. I have today written a letter to the observers here, informing them of this, in the hope that they will take my appeal into serious consideration. Europe has always been willing to help the candidate countries and human rights cases throughout the world, but perhaps for once it deserves greater recognition, when what is in fact quite a simple request is denied like this."@en1
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