Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2005-05-11-Speech-3-195"
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Like the Commission and Parliament, the Council has, throughout the enlargement process, stressed the particular importance of protecting minorities and equal opportunities in the political representation of these minorities.
More specifically, during the last meeting of the EU-Romania Association Council, thus before the signing of the accession treaty, the Union pointed out that political pluralism was an essential principle of any democracy and that it was fundamentally linked to compliance with the Copenhagen political criteria. The Union urged Romania to amend all of its restrictive legislative provisions affecting political parties and the planning of local elections, which had, in the past, prevented certain parties from taking part in the polls.
The Council is well aware of the problems faced by certain new political parties representing ethnic minorities in Romania in registering themselves to stand for election. The development of these issues will continue to be monitored from the perspective of the Copenhagen political criteria in the strengthened monitoring of Romania’s pre-accession preparations."@en1
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