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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, Parliament has done well to insert Mr Brok’s excellent report immediately after this morning’s debate on the Biarritz and Nice Summits. There is no point in pretending: this whole scenario described in such detail by Mr Brok and analysed point by point in the specific reports which we are going to hear conflicts with events in the field of negotiations, which are intended to ensure that the current European Union adapts its structures and institutions in preparation for the challenge of enlargement. In company with a large number of other Members, I greatly appreciated President Prodi’s declarations and I took note of Mr Moscovici’s words when, with diplomatic caution, he too warned us not to expect much in the way of results over the next two or three months. We hope that results will be achieved and that another Intergovernmental Conference will not have to be held in order to prepare adequately for enlargement. However, this factor indisputably pervades and conditions the whole of the rest of the architecture, all the prospects for the future, this acquired right which the peoples and countries of Eastern and southern Europe now have to join the European Union. For the countries of Eastern Europe, I would say that it takes the form of a sort of compensation for all the years that they had to suffer a dictatorship, which, despite being established in Yalta, was still a dictatorship for very many years.
I would now like to emphasise another point: I feel that a major factor is own resources, as has already been stated. The Brok report hints at this, although rather diffidently. However, it also notes the fact that we have a ceiling of 1.27%. We are well below this figure and the governments of our countries are reluctant to even approach it. Now, in the previous enlargement processes, particularly when Spain and Portugal joined the Union, we were in possession of a very powerful budgetary tool, for the Delors I and Delors II packages provided an impetus which made it possible for struggling economies to make up for lost time. This political will is currently absent, and I feel that that is the central factor to be stressed in the debate on enlargement."@en1
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