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"In spite of all the accusations voiced in the Romanian press and in many press briefings, I am not against the accession of Romania, I am not speaking out against the interests of Romania. But – with deep respect for the population of Romania – I know that accession must be successful for each Romanian citizen. This is their only chance to avoid missing the vitally important modernisation. And the European Union constitutes a chance today, perhaps the very last chance for the population of Romania. However, I believe that this chance must also be provided to the Hungarian community in Romania, who have already had their fair share of political window-dressing, but what they actually see is that only a few of the essential issues have been solved.
Please allow me to give an example. When the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the European Parliament votes that the situation of this community should be settled on the basis of European principles such as self-governance and subsidiarity, the Romanian Prime Minister asks the Liberal Group in Brussels to remove the principle of self-governance from the text and replace it with ‘cultural autonomy’. In the meantime, in the background, the two large government coalition parties – Liberal and Democratic – agreed in Bucharest on Monday to remove the essence of cultural autonomy from the draft Minority Act, robbing the minority community of all forms of self-governance.
They would remove from the rather unstable draft Minority Act the very essence for which it is being created, allowing no opportunity for dialogue. This constitutes further evidence of the Romanian political window-dressing. They say one thing to Europe, and do something else at home. Could it be that they use the same political window-dressing in other areas, as well? Regarding the issues of the Roma people, environmental protection, property restitution, corruption? Please support me in ensuring that we adhere to our basic European principles, to our April resolution – and let us not amend paragraph 26 of the Moscovici report. The report that we had voted for is good as it is, and Mr Moscovici deserves to be commended for it. If we do not demand that these basic principles be implemented, no one else will do it in our place."@en1
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