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"Mr President, I am not going to repeat the comments made by our rapporteurs, which I fully support, but I would like to come back to Article 39 of the Treaty of Accession. My group’s opinion has already been stated by our leader Mr Schulz. During our recent visits to Bulgaria and Romania, we had a great number of meetings – not only with government members and officials but also with opposition members, representatives of trade unions, NGOs, academics, representatives of the business community and the EU Member States’ ambassadors – and no one we spoke to came to the conclusion that there is a serious risk of either country being manifestly unprepared to meet the requirements of membership on 1 January 2007.
As you, Commissioner, have very correctly pointed out in numerous exchanges of views in this House and in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria has shown continuous progress in all relevant areas, including regional cooperation, modernisation of the Bulgarian police, development of social services, reintegration of persons and minorities, labour and social policy and childcare. I could go on and on, but let me assure you that in Sofia they have got the message and all the progress that has been made so far or is currently being made has always been progress and always in the right direction. The Governments of Bulgaria and Romania know that the reforms have to be continued and more progress has to be achieved.
Commissioner, you said in a recent interview that Europe’s borders are defined by values rather than by the geographical guidelines. You said the values defined the borders. Well, I fully agree and I strongly believe that Bulgaria and Romania share our values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, and their place from 1 January 2007 should be inside our European Union. Their borders from 1 January 2007 should be our borders. And there the dynamic concept of the EU will move to new borders. I do not want to repeat what a previous speaker was saying, but I fully share Mrs Gál’s opinion on the minorities in Romania."@en1
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