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"Mr President, I voted today against the recommendation for Romanian membership, for the following reasons.
It is plainly obvious from all the reports that Romania still essentially fails to meet the conditions of membership. It is unfortunate that we have not decided to postpone making the decision. Given the situation, I have no other choice but to vote against, although in principle I warmly support Romanian membership. I vehemently object, however, to the clearance sale of membership conditions that Parliament has agreed to today through its recommendation. Adherence to the criteria that have been jointly agreed and once again put to the citizens of Europe in talks on enlargement should be a normal gesture, not anything exceptional or remarkable. Unless we keep to our agreed principles, we will drift into a situation in which we betray the tenets of representational democracy and drastically reduce our chances of keeping to agreements in the future."@en1
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