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"Madam President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, absent Presidency, it was only to be expected that the progress report put before us today would confirm that Bulgaria and Romania do not yet meet the Copenhagen criteria. The criticism of them is justified. My own experience of the problems that the Visegrad states have with accession to the EU and my own knowledge of the Romanian and Bulgarian accession agenda lead me to be very sceptical about 1 January 2007 as a deadline. You may well ask why this is so.
I was recently one of a delegation from the Human Rights Sub-Committee that went to Bucharest, and I regret to have to say that the talks we had there confirmed me in my views. We had the opportunity for discussions with representatives of the institutions of state, and also with various NGOs. These encounters reminded me of my experiences with regimes in the aftermath of totalitarianism. The government representatives were highly self-critical, but, in the final analysis, said little of any substance. It was in meetings with NGOs, particularly in private conversations, that the state of play in the various areas under negotiation was described much more clearly, and in terms at once more sober and more dramatic. The same was true, in varying degrees, of our conversations with these representatives’ Bulgarian counterparts.
We are dealing here with a reality that is not entirely what it seems to be. There is little point in signing documents if they are not implemented. There is no evading the conclusions with which these problems present us: the legal system is lacking in transparency, there is organised crime, problems with minorities and the Roma, corruption, and problems with agriculture and the environment. Even taking into account the natural disasters with which both countries have been afflicted, it is, regrettably, to be expected that they will find it difficult to make the grade in the short time available; they will have to make a very considerable effort to make it even by 2008."@en1
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