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"en.20120314.22.3-382-375"2
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"The commitment made by the EU in the Thessaloniki European Council Meeting in 2003 to all the Western Balkan States that they would join the European Union was reiterated in the 2011 progress report. The commitment to opening accession negotiations with the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) was also reiterated. The dispute with Greece within the UN over the naming of FYROM should not create obstacles to the country’s integration into the EU, since the country is committed to implementing the EU
and to the second stage of the stabilisation and association agreement. What is more, FYROM has demonstrated good economic performance, while still showing some weaknesses, namely, in terms of judicial independence, the impartiality of the administration, the challenges of unemployment and high levels of poverty. I would also highlight the fact that the country has moved up 40 places in the Corruption Perceptions Index over the last five years, as well as the efforts made by the government in the areas of inter-ethnic conflict resolution, and the need for more policies targeting the entirety of the population, without ethnic discrimination. I am voting for this motion for a resolution, since the EU has a vital role to play in continued reforms in the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia."@en1
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