Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2004-03-10-Speech-3-143"

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dcterms:Date	"2004-03-10"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Enlargement / Candidate countries (continuation)2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20040310.4.3-143"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2004-03-10-Speech-3-1442
lpv:speaker	lp:Guido Podestà2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; CONT (2002-07-04--2004-07-19)3 member; BUDG (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (2002-01-17--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; European Parliament (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 vice-president; Parliament's Bureau (2002-01-15--2004-07-19)3 member; Delegation for relations with Switzerland, Iceland and Norway (2002-02-07--2004-07-19)3 member_of_the_bureau; EPP-ED (2002-03-08--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Forza Italia (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I take the floor to speak about the report on Romania. When having talks in recent weeks with the rapporteur and other Members, I tried to improve this report, but I must say that this attempt did not succeed, and this is why I have tabled some amendments on which we will vote in the House tomorrow. It seems to me that this report is not very balanced, that it is inaccurate and inconsistent with what our Parliament has maintained to date. Given the shortage of time, I will just concentrate on two aspects. Firstly: the issue of children in institutions and the issue of adoption. The serious nature of this issue should lead us to make serious and balanced assessments of the efforts made, of the improvements achieved and of what remains to be done. Above all, claims that have not been proven should be excluded, if we do not want to offend a friendly country and if we do not want our Parliament’s credibility to be lost. Rigour is of course needed, but not prejudice. Secondly, I do not agree with those who – in the name of totally understandable demand to reorientate the Romanian Government’s policy on some sensitive issues linked to European integration – fundamentally reject the results achieved to date. I should not like to think that these hurried and ungenerous judgments were influenced by the cost of enlargement to include countries of the Carpathia and the Balkans. If this were the case and if there were political short-sightedness of this kind, then I would like to mention – as Mr Daul did this morning in the House – the 50 million who died during the world wars of the last century. I believe that the only way to avoid the future risks that the recent war in Yugoslavia too has shown to be potential and real is to make progress in terms of integration. Rigour is of course needed, but so too is understanding of the efforts made and the results achieved. It will be much easier for a state to become fully legitimate within the EU than outside it. I believe that 2007 must remain the target for Romania and Bulgaria. This is not a certainty but an objective, even if – as Commissioner Verheugen said – the keys to this success lie above all with Sofia and Bucharest."@en1

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