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Mr President, it has been a pleasure to work with Mr Moscovici on this fine report. Indeed I enjoyed and valued his work in his earlier capacity as a minister. It is just as much of a pleasure to work with him as a rapporteur. I thank Mr Moscovici for this fine work.
I believe that President Iliescu – as he retires from his second and final term of office – and his government, as well as Prime Minister Nastase, have concluded their work on a high note. They should be proud of their successful achievement of the enlargement process for Romania.
It is easy today to damn Romania with faint praise, to say that she has done well but has a huge amount more to do. That may indeed be true, but let us recall the low position from which she has come and has advanced so rapidly. None of us would have dreamed five years ago, when the Helsinki Council declared Romania to be one of the 'regatta principle' countries, that she could have completed the chapters so rapidly and indeed so well.
All the chapters are closed. Of course, implementation must be high on the agenda of the new government and it will have to have very competent people to implement this matter. They have to apply the
properly and respect the deadlines. A great deal of capacity-building has to happen. Administrative capacity is vital in applying the
as well as ongoing training of staff.
However, let us remember what an enormous amount has been achieved. One of the ways in which we could help is by trying to stop the brain drain. Romania needs its young people very badly. We should do all we can to strengthen the position of higher education in Romania, to help the country offer jobs, training and workshops to young people. It would be very easy, as Romania comes ever closer to the Union, for us to be a magnet for her young people to leave the country. That would be a very great pity. It is those young people who will assist Romania in implementing the
correctly and improving the absorption capacity for the funding that the Commission is putting in.
I congratulate the Commission too for the very dedicated work which colleagues and I have seen carried out over the last few years.
I have put forward one amendment, at which I would ask Mr Moscovici and other colleagues to look carefully. They have acknowledged that I have been concentrating in particular on the issue of children. While I understood and respected Mr Moscovici's support for Prime Minister Raffarin's request for an international commission to re-examine certain sensitive cases on humanitarian grounds where there have been problems with inter-country adoption, nonetheless, I wonder if colleagues might consider accepting my amendment to paragraph 17.
Mr Moscovici's report requests an international commission. That is one outside the European Union. My own amendment asks the Commission to take up this matter with the Romanian Government – which is right and proper – and also to report back to the government of Romania and – since I know that colleagues are concerned about this – to the European Parliament as well. Perhaps Mr Moscovici and I could discuss this. I am sure he would find that it is more in keeping with the spirit of the Treaty."@en1
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