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Madam President, every line of the important opinion of the Committee on Citizens’ Freedom and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs, drafted so courageously by Mr Oostlander and Mrs Berger, is a matter of concern and frustration to us. From the lack of the judiciary’s independence from the government to the situation of minorities, from the limited access to justice, to crimes and acts of violence going unpunished, from religious persecution to discrimination against homosexuals, from trafficking in human beings to organised crime, police corruption and inefficiency at the borders, from the limited independence of journalists to the weakness of the judicial system, all of these are problems on which progress has been limited and almost imperceptible.
Europe cannot be held responsible for this, because this year alone, we will be spending EUR 1 billion on a fast-track approach to help the legal and administrative apparatus of the candidate countries improve these disastrous situations. As the Copenhagen doctrine established, in the field of freedom, democracy and human rights there can be no exceptions, transition periods or
Europe. On these matters, Madam President, countries must either put up or shut up. Let us hope that they put up and do so in the best possible way."@en1
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