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"I should like to highlight a problem that is very distressing in human terms: that of the adoption of Romanian children by European couples.
By means of a moratorium dated June 2001, the Romanian authorities banned all international adoptions, except in exceptional circumstances: the adoption of siblings, of children aged over 6 years or of disabled children.
Despite the fact that they were among the authorised exceptions, several dozen adoption applications have been left pending since being reviewed in 2001.
Thus, 800 European families have been waiting for more than five years to adopt their children, even though their adoption applications had been validated prior to June 2001 by the Romanian adoption committee.
These children know their adoptive parents and have a bond with them. They are now suffering from abandonment for a second time. What have become of the best interests of the child?
In December 2005, the European Parliament called on Romania to deal with these adoption application cases as quickly as possible, but no breakthrough has been observed up to now.
All international adoption applications are systematically rejected. In March, applications submitted before the moratorium of June 2001 were rejected once again.
Does the European Commission plan to put pressure on the Romanian Government so that a fair and humane solution might quickly be found in the interest of the children and of the adoptive families?"@en1
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