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vice-chair; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-22--2004-07-19)3
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"Mr President, there is no doubt that, between them, the Council and Commission statements and Mr Brok’s valuable work have painted a full picture of the enlargement process and the progress of the negotiations with the candidate countries.
The concerns voiced here, however, although, it is true, expressed by confirmed believers in the historic importance of the enlargement process and strategy, relate to the apparent haziness of the situation surrounding the process itself. To be sure, almost all the candidate countries have put up a commendable performance in developing their legal systems and economies quickly. In any case, respect for the Copenhagen criteria and assimilation of the Community acquis – which, however, we feel should be interpreted in general terms – are compulsory. However, what we do not fully understand, less than two years off the first wave of entries, is whether the final decision will depend on practical results or whether it will be affected by the pseudopolitical, not to say paternalistic attitudes which have reared their heads, which are not indicative of the great overall willingness to cooperate which the Union ought to be showing.
Moreover, it is not clear what the result of the entry of – presumably 10 – countries in 2004 will be, in the sense that we do not know what impact the overspending on the part of four countries will have on the current financial planning and therefore on the treatment that will be reserved for the new Member States. Certainly, a sure response needs to be given at least with regard to the size of the Structural Funds commitments that will be set aside for them in the short- and long-term future, not least to give them time to find responses to the respective problems of social and economic cohesion which are emerging in some of those countries and develop an effective social and employment policy and a code of good practice for undertakings.
Border security, respect for minors, civil rights, the own-resources funding system and an effective judicial system are certainly extremely important, but it is equally important for each of the candidate countries to involve its citizens in the process, to provide them with the right information and to be able to convince them that it is worth making temporary sacrifices now as an investment for future prosperity, if this last is actually the object of the exercise."@en1
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