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"I am very happy that today our colleague, until recently Minister Cecilia Malmström, has spoken on behalf of the Council. This House has been poorer for her absence, but the Swedish Presidency has certainly gained from it. I would like to say in Swedish
or ‘thank you’ – for her speech, which in my language, in Polish, means
and it is therefore a fitting word, as I fully agree with what she has told us on behalf of the Council today, even though I have some small but important comments.
In the first place, I really do not want this appropriate initiative of the Council, supported by the Commission, to be – to put it bluntly – some kind of alternative to the rapid accession of Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro to the European Union. It is what the societies of those countries expect, and it is what they deserve. I do not believe that we should substitute the perspective of fast-track accession to the European Union by these countries by waiving visa requirements.
Secondly, I believe that the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Albania and Kosovo also deserve visa-free travel as soon as possible. In this regard, we need to consistently hold up definite European prospects before them."@en1
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