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"Mr President, although, like most of my fellow Members, I am in favour of the EU including Romania and Bulgaria, and of their becoming full members of it, I do believe that this should happen in due course and according to the rules. This is why I abstained from voting on both of the reports, as it is my belief that the countries have not yet achieved compliance with the criteria we established. This is, in fact, a general problem, as Member States are failing to comply with the Stability Pact criteria, and the conditions being applied to Turkey differ from those we actually agreed on. Croatia has to meet far more rigorous standards, whereas advance approval is now to be granted to Bulgaria and Romania. I believe that we are neither predictable nor consistent enough, and it is for this reason that I abstained from voting."@en1
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