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I, like my British Conservative colleagues, support Romanian and Bulgarian accession and regret the 11th-hour attempts by some Members to deny assent to those countries on the grounds of interinstitutional wranglings and budgetary considerations, now resolved anyway. Although the delay of 20 months between our assent and eventual accession on 1 January 2007 is ludicrously long, it is too late to have this debate now and our position on this should have been made clear earlier.
I am reassured by the commitment of President Basescu's new government in Romania that corruption will be considered a threat to national security and aggressively prosecuted. Furthermore, the commitment given to plenary by Commissioner Rehn that our Parliament will be fully involved in the unlikely decision of activating the safeguard clause to delay accession by one year.
Not giving our assent now would send all the wrong signals to the people and governments of Romania and Bulgaria and would be a grave mistake, and I welcome both countries in the EU."@en1
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