Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-06-Speech-3-064"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2006-09-06"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Albania - Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania(debate)2
dcterms:Language	"mt"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20060906.5.3-064"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-06-Speech-3-0652
lpv:speaker	lp:Simon Busuttil2
lpv:spokenAs	member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2004-08-31--2009-07-13)3 vice-chair; Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union (including Libya) (2004-09-20--2007-03-13)3 substitute; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 substitute; REGI (2004-07-22--2007-01-14)3 member; Delegation to the Euro-Mediterranean Parliamentary Assembly (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; CONT (2005-02-21--2007-01-14)3 member; BUDG (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 unknown; Partit Nazzjonalista (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3
lpv:translated text	"I too would like to join my colleagues in welcoming with pleasure the Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Albania. By means of this Agreement, Albania will be sealing its future in Europe. I am convinced that, following Albania’s ending of its political isolation years ago, this agreement will now allow it to make rapid progress, both economically and socially, and that it will do this from a European perspective. However, the journey will not be an easy one. As indicated in the European partnership adopted by the Council with Albania earlier this year, Albania has several objectives to meet, both in the short-term and over a number of years. It must be clear that a global and courageous reform is required in the country, so that these objectives can be achieved; a root and branch reform, so to speak, in several sectors, in particular with regard to the administrative capacity of Albania’s public administration. Greater progress is required with regard to the civil rights of the Albanian people and in the justice sector. To change a country and a society in this way is certainly not easy, but neither is it impossible. My country, Malta, also went through a similar change. Over a period spanning almost twenty years it has undergone a phenomenal transformation. However, the difficult road we embarked upon enabled us to meet the Copenhagen criteria, thus allowing us to join the European family within the European Union, just as many other countries did. Albania should look upon this Agreement as an extremely important step which will lead it to its natural home, that is, to membership of the European Union. Today this Parliament should send a clear message to the Albanian people, the message that the European Parliament is closely following the developments affecting the Albanian people and that they can count on our support and good will."@en1

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