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Like the rapporteur, I should like to express my pleasure at the considerable progress which Latvia has made in recent months in order to be included in the first wave of enlargement that the European Union is shortly to experience.
Even though this good report masks an occasionally disparate real situation – Mrs Schroedter’s report highlights the difficult situation of rural areas or again the slowness of the necessary adaptation of public administration – the fact remains that Latvia has, nonetheless, reoriented its policy in such a way as to become, unquestionably, a member of the European family in the way this is usually understood in this Parliament.
And it is this feeling – or lack thereof – much more than meticulous analyses of the accounts, which should, when the time comes, govern our choices regarding enlargement as European integration ceases to have any meaning if it is no longer primarily political.
The pettifoggery intended to alter the frame of reference used to view events when they run counter to the slightly too rigid technocratic and monetary dogma – this House’s astounding indifference in the fact of the outcome of the Danish referendum is a splendid, worrying example of this – should not be used as a benchmark for a debate of this importance.
Latvia is entitled to its place in this forum, not only because, on the whole, the progress it has made has earned it the right to this ‘allocation of confidence’ that is essential in order to successfully concluded negotiations of this type, but more especially, and above all, because Latvia is at home in Europe as a European country.
And so, in agreement with the observations and comments made by the rapporteur, I therefore welcome this dialogue and the prospects it gives rise to. I hope that Latvia will have the opportunity to add the wealth of its own special characteristics to a European Union which I too hope will, in the meantime, have opted to reorganise itself into a coherent political body that respects nations and their sovereignty, rather than a muddled board of shareholders of unequal standing that have lost sight of their primary objective, which is to build a strong, independent Europe."@en1
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