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"Mr President, I too welcome the Commission’s decision on the accession date of Romania and Bulgaria. I also wish to praise the Commission for its work, in particular the work of DG Enlargement.
The European Council was right to decide to welcome the people of Bulgaria and Romania as from 1 January 2007 to our big European family – the European family to which they have always belonged since they share our historic culture and common values. Your message to the people of Bulgaria and Romania is the right one.
Both countries have worked hard and they have achieved enormous progress so far. The people of both countries strongly supported their governments in this work. These people will now be even more motivated to support the reforms that are still needed and that are described in the Commission’s report. As the Commissioner has pointed out very correctly in numerous exchanges of views which we have had either in plenary and in the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Bulgaria and Romania have shown continuous progress in all the relevant areas. Both capitals are aware that they have to speed up and reinforce their efforts in certain fields and I strongly believe that they are going to be successful in fulfilling the expectations of the European Union, as expressed by its Parliament, and most of the expectations of their own people.
As a Hungarian, I should also like to say a few words about the Hungarian minority in Romania. Firstly, I should like to thank the College of Commissioners for raising the issue of the situation of the Hungarian minority in the current report. Secondly, as I have said so many times in this House concerning this issue, one of the basic failures of the current Romanian Government coalition agreement was and is to adopt a law on minorities. Although I believe that the accession of Romania will provide a solution for the Hungarians living beyond the border, and that from 1 January 2007 onwards we will be able to live in a common Europe without borders, I also wish to emphasise to the Romanian Government that it should not forget its promise to adopt a minority law; both Parliament and the Commission will follow that up closely."@en1
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