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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I thank Mr Moscovici for his excellent report.
With the accession of Romania and Bulgaria, the fifth round of enlargement will have been implemented, creating a larger, democratic Europe, which will take its place on the world political stage as a place of great promise and profound concerns, distinguished by being the Europe of citizenship. Europe is thus not just a free-market and free trade area with a single currency, but above all it has the ability and desire to peacefully export the model consisting of the rule of law, protection of minorities and human rights, sustainable development, as well as an economy and finances that are efficient and designed to promote cohesion.
That is what the spirit and the letter of the Constitutional Treaty and the Nice Charter affirm. We therefore welcome the successes and steady improvement that Romania has achieved in meeting the Copenhagen criteria in the various fields, as Mr Moscovici has indicated, emphasising
its respect for its minorities, both Hungarian and Roma. Romania must, however, make rapid progress to fulfil all the accession commitments, especially in the area of the Community
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Structural measures are not enough to combat poverty. Corruption also needs to be fought through preventive measures and all laws need to be enforced. Lastly, we feel that the improvement of legislation on child protection and international adoptions is a positive step. Regarding the latter area, I would call on the Romanian authorities to find an immediate solution to the problem of adoptions hit by delays, which are depriving children of the families to which they are entitled.
In the name of that universal right, which is one of the strong points of the Constitutional Treaty, and in addition to the creation of an international commission to start work straight away, I call on the newly-elected Romanian authorities not to waste precious time and, for Christmas, to give those children the parents that already love them and with whom they can build a better future in a peaceful Europe."@en1
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