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"Mr President, first of all, I should like to thank the Commissioner for his extensive introduction, which gives a balanced picture of the progress that has been made in a number of areas since we last considered them, yet also of the various problems that remain. In my speech, I should briefly like to focus on Romania.
There is no doubt that the Basescu government means well and tries to work hard on further reforms, so credit where credit is due. Even so, there are still a number of recurrent problems. First of all, there is the continuing corruption. Since honesty by decree is impossible, the government will need to do more than spell out its opposition to corruption time and again. If further confidence is to be gained, it will, in particular, have to tackle the people in the higher echelons of the civil service and prosecute former politicians who have been corrupt. Needless to say, the judiciary has its own role to play in this, but the government should make every effort to show the first emphatic signs of change as a matter of urgency.
Then there is border control, the fight against cross-border crime, not to mention people smuggling. Progress will definitely need to be made on that score too, also given the fact that Romania will soon have one of the most extensive external borders, if not
most extensive, both in terms of land and sea.
The third point has to do with food safety and genetic modification, and my Dutch fellow Member, Mr Lagendijk, has discussed it in detail.
The fourth point may seem less significant on the surface, namely the position in hospitals of people suffering from mental illness and the situation in orphanages. There is certainly a need for more progress to be made in those areas too.
Both in his speech and in his documents, the Commissioner has spoken in no uncertain terms. There are still major problems with 10% of the
. We will need to see improvements if we are to commence proceedings on the planned date. Both now in the autumn, but certainly also in April, we will need to join with the Commissioner in examining whether it will be necessary to defer accession. We hope that it will not be, but if we have to defer, then so be it. We should also check whether, after a possible accession, certain chapters should be put on hold if the level of implementation is inadequate; the Council will need to look into this in detail and it is unfortunate that the Council is not present here.
On a final note, I should like to say to Romania that we are strict where the criteria are concerned. We are not against Romania; it is not a yellow card, but rather a push for further reforms, a push for more freedom for the Romanian people and guaranteeing our values as Europe, to which we must very definitely hold fast during each enlargement round if we want to keep our credibility intact."@en1
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