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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the New Italian Socialist Party wishes the incoming President Basescu all the best in his work.
The countless young Romanians who have supported him over recent months and are jubilantly filling the squares and streets of Bucharest and the rest of the country are, regardless of their political affiliations, pinning on him their hopes for change and for a different, new and better future.
Mr Basescu has a difficult and yet rather exciting task ahead of him: to steer his country on the new courses of modernisation, anti-corruption measures and full compliance with human and civil rights, as well as the permanent adoption of democratic structures. We hope – or rather, we are sure – that the end of that journey can only be the total integration of Romania into the political and socioeconomic bloc of the European Union.
While we note with satisfaction the goals that have been achieved, our task over the remaining two years will be to ensure that concrete, real and significant improvements are made in the many areas that still fall short of European standards.
I refer in particular to the qualitative leap that is urgently needed in the field of human rights, especially with regard to the requests of the Roma minority, which often suffers discrimination with the acquiescence of government authorities. The Roma make up 2.5 million citizens who live on the edges of society in totally unacceptable conditions.
I also refer to the requests and aspirations of the Hungarian minority, which consists of 1.5 million people; the treatment of the disabled; the shameful condition of the health infrastructure, especially those facilities housing patients with mental problems; the violent methods and actual physical abuse practised by the forces of law and order; a judicial system that fails to meet the criteria of efficiency and independence; as well as media that are still not entirely free.
On visiting the country, I was struck and disturbed by the many – too many – children wandering the streets alone. We must demand a concrete commitment from the government on this issue. It is a legal and moral obligation, not an option. Everything possible has to be done, then, to ensure that every child in Romania, as in Europe and the rest of the world, has the right to a peaceful, happy childhood and the right to smile with hope for the future."@en1
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