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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2013-02-06"^^xsd:date2
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dcterms:Language	"en"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20130206.37.3-614-000"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2013-02-06-Speech-3-615-0002
lpv:speaker	lp:Geoffrey Van Orden2
lpv:spoken text	"I am very happy to answer that. The questions that were raised then are valid today, as I have now indicated. But the reasons why it was right for Bulgaria to accede at that time were absolutely correct and remain correct. This was at a time when Bulgaria needed to have the confidence of being very much part of a western club. It was at a time of growing Russian influence in that part of the world, when they needed economic confidence and when investors in Bulgaria needed to have the prospect of stability, and at a time when there were extremist forces on the rise in Bulgaria that needed to be allayed. For all of those reasons it was right for Bulgaria to join the European Union. But at that time we made it very clear that there was a need for continuing reform and, in particular, reform in those areas which I have now indicated. My disappointment is that they have not addressed those concerns with sufficient urgency."@en1
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lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"(The speaker agreed to take a blue-card question under Rule 149(8))"1 "Geoffrey Van Orden (ECR ),"1 "blue-card answer"1
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