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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2005-04-12"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Applications for accession of Bulgaria and Romania2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20050412.27.2-180"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2005-04-12-Speech-2-1812
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3,3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3,3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3,3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3,3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, tomorrow, this House will be delivering its verdict on Romania’s and Bulgaria’s accession to the European Union. We are still 20 months away from the currently planned date of accession, though, and quite a few of the questions which have been discussed at length in this House remain unanswered. Our key concern is the state of affairs in Romania. A number of necessary reforms in public administration and the administration of justice must be carried out as a matter of priority. The fight against corruption deserves more decisive action, and better guarantees are needed for the freedom and independence of the press. These aspects, along with many others, have been mentioned in Commission reports and those of our own rapporteurs. Like the Council and the Commission, we want to keep the pressure on in Bulgaria and particularly in Romania, so that the necessary reforms can actually take place within the agreed timeframes. The shortcomings in Romania are so severe that our ‘yes’ at the moment amounts to conditional consent. There is still the option of activating the safety clauses in order to protect the European Union against the adverse effects of possible shortcomings. Should either country’s shortcomings be too serious, then its accession can even be postponed. As this House should not simply stand by during monitoring and during the process of deciding whether to use safeguards or to postpone accession, we have asked the Council and the Commission to be actively involved in the monitoring and decision-making process right up to the day of accession, and the speeches we have heard this afternoon indicate that they are prepared to do so. This puts the European Parliament in a better position and, above all, benefits democratic control of the enlargement process, and I also see it as a political agreement. Should a large majority of this House have cause to cast doubt over Romania’s or Bulgaria’s progress or state of readiness at a later stage in the process, then the Council and the Commission could hardly ignore it if they want to avoid major political confrontations. Our consent tomorrow will therefore be conditional. It is also a political agreement of some sort with the accession candidates. It sends a message to them that in the next 18 months, they will be high on our list of priorities, and that it is their own commitment that will eventually be decisive."@en1

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