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Mr President, I feel that the Brok report provides an excellent overview and a method for future similar operations. With regard to the current operation – enlargement – the sooner it happens the better. The politicians of the new democracies, although in some cases the public rather less so, are under the impression that outside Europe it is darker and rainier, but many small, developed countries, including Slovenia, are wont to succumb to fears and see complete sovereignty as a way of constraining the globalising force of the strong and the economically aggressive. I hope that the Brok report will help to set them straight and convince them that they are progressing along the right road.
It appears that the general issues have already been dealt with and I would therefore like, if I may, just to focus on Slovenia. Ultimately, as far as Slovenia is concerned, there are two sensitive points in particular. Slovenia, considered to be among the best prepared candidate countries, is making every endeavour to complete the adoption of
the chapters of the European acquis. In practice, however, the problems revealed are the same as those highlighted by other reports. In some sectors, the efforts are yielding the desired results, but there are delays in others. Ljubljana looks set to achieve the four Maastricht criteria on target, reducing inflation, and that is a considerable achievement. There seems to be a certain amount of progress in areas such as the computerisation of the land register and the privatisation of banks, particularly the privatisation of banks, which is an indication of greater openness towards other countries. The computerisation of the land register, on the other hand, should reduce the number of civil court cases attributable to denationalisation. The European Union has been urging Slovenia to speed up the procedures and make good the delays in this field for years now.
Brussels, for its part, understands Slovenia’s concern that it will enter the Union under unfavourable conditions or even as a net contributor. The support for agriculture, which is not sufficiently long-term, does not provide sufficient reassurance. It would appear that Slovenia’s argument that stable mechanisms need to be found for the Structural Funds, direct payments and so forth is falling on sympathetic ears."@en1
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