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"Mr President, as one who was in Copenhagen when we formulated the Copenhagen criteria in 1993, I have one opening wish to express to the Commissioner: that we do not make any new claims to Bulgaria and Romania compared to the ones we always have based our enlargement politics upon. No new claims, no extra demands, but exactly the same claims and demands as we have asked from all our Member countries, I take that for granted.
Secondly, as our group chairman Mr Schulz said today, it is our common feeling that we have passed that critical mass where we can say that Romania and Bulgaria are capable now to come into the European Union. They are not perfect in all aspects. There are still problems ahead – you have mentioned some of them and we have mentioned some of them, but our common judgement is that we are on the road, the direction is there.
To tell you the truth, as you know Commissioner, I can still see corruption problems in some of the existing Member countries within the European Union. Even in my own country I can see some types of crime which we can see also in other existing Member countries. So please, Commissioner, do not make your judgement – and I know you will not, but I am just saying it – based on the number of cases in Bulgaria or Romania. It is about direction, reform, legislation and decisiveness to implement. I can assure you that both in Bulgaria and Romania immunity has been now moved away as an obstacle for bringing cases against Members of the Parliament or other personalities within the societies. That is very important.
Finally, as President of the European Socialist Party, I should like to point out that I totally agree with my group colleagues Mr Schulz and Mr Swoboda. We find that it is best to take the two countries in now. Over the next few months – until November and then the European Council meeting in December – we should look into how and whether we should formulate some transitional claims at the top of membership as of 1 January."@en1
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