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"Mr President, our Parliament overwhelmingly approved the accessions of Romania and Bulgaria to full membership of the European Union during our plenary session in April. The week before, our Parliament’s JPC delegation, chaired by my group colleague Mr Podestà, visited our Romanian parliamentary colleagues and met with the President, the Prime Minister and the Home Affairs and Justice Ministers.
On 9 June the Conference of Presidents sent the invitation to the Romanian and Bulgarian Parliaments to nominate their European Parliament observers and for them to take up their duties on 26 September. Last week I was invited to return to Bucharest to address the appointed observers. I regret the European Parliament appears just now not to have maintained a consistent common approach, and that my own Group at present may not be wholly associated with the joint motion for a resolution to be voted tomorrow.
I have had the privilege of belonging to the PPE Group for over 15 years. It is a privilege I firmly intend to preserve. I hope, even at this hour, we may come back to a common agreed position. We have given our word, expressed in our name by the President of our Parliament to the observers, that they should take up their duties from 26 September. If we were to go back on our word, what signal would that send to Romania; to those brave statesmen, politicians and public servants who are struggling to bring democracy, economic, administrative and legal reforms? They regard the prospect of EU membership as the guarantee that they will achieve their goal.
Let us remember the difficult history of these countries. In Bucharest, before the Senate House, opposite the Royal Palace, there is a memorial inscribed with the words ‘Glorie martirilor nostri’ dated December 1989. It commemorates the fact that over 1 000 young people, students and soldiers lost their lives demonstrating and defending the demands for freedom. How should we honour their memory? This moment of uncertainty in the EU is a time for our Parliament to show courage and perseverance. We have given our word. We intend to abide by it and welcome the Romanian observers as promised on 26 September this year so that together we may work for a further successful enlargement of our European Union."@en1
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