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"en.20020613.4.4-137"2
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". – As an avid but critical supporter of the enlargement process, I felt the need to vote against the Brok report on the progress of the applicant countries.
Firstly, the Brok report incorrectly states that the applicant countries continue to fulfil the political criteria set in Copenhagen in 1993. That is incorrect. If Parliament took the Commission's country reports seriously, we could not ignore the numerous examples of corruption, discrimination against minorities, lack of human rights protection and weak judicial systems in some applicant countries. I believe that human rights and the rule of law need to be the top priority for Parliament in the enlargement debate. Therefore I regard the report, which explicitly denies the problems that still exist in this area, as unacceptable.
I am delighted that amendments underlining the absolute priority of the political criteria have been adopted along the lines of my own amendments adopted by the Committee on Citizens' Freedoms and Rights, Justice and Home Affairs to its opinion. Parliament must now take its own words seriously and look in detail at the human rights situation in the applicant countries."@en1
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