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Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I am really surprised at the tone of this discussion. I am not sure that we are doing any favours to European values and European democracy by allowing this debate to descend into an extension of the Romanian election campaign, which has already begun. I would like to pick up on a comment made by Mr Watson. You said that, whether debating on Hungary or Romania, we were dealing with countries that had not really made a full transition from communist regime to European democracy. I completely agree. However I believe that Mr Ponta is also one of the players who has not made this transition. The parallels I see between Hungary and Romania are simply that a political majority, when it feels securely in power, will not hesitate to reorganise the institutions of the state to such an extent that independence from the majority power in the government in Parliament is lost. I certainly see a parallel with what we discussed regarding Hungary, although the situation is different.
The fact that we have this instrument, the cooperation and control process that has allowed us to take a closer look with the help of the Commission, shows that we have long known that something was not right with the rule of law and the whole campaign against corruption in Romania, as well as Bulgaria, where the same instruments also exist. The same goes for President Bǎsescu. Hence my insistence. It is good that the Commission has now taken a closer look at Romania. I would be very pleased if we had such measures available for the EU as a whole, so we would not find ourselves again and again facing a situation where it is claimed that we have no powers or authority or that we are guilty of playing party politics when we focus attention on a particular party that belongs to a large party grouping in this House, whether on the left or right.
Ladies and gentlemen, I am frequently ashamed to see how the large party groupings are really fellow travellers with non-democrats in the European Union. If this practice does not stop, I am pessimistic about the development of the rule of law, which Ms Reding has upheld in this case, but also in Hungary, despite the opportunities that were open to us there."@en1
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