Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2006-09-26-Speech-2-192"

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dcterms:Date	"2006-09-26"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Accession of Bulgaria and Romania2
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lpv:document identification number	"en.20060926.23.2-192"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2006-09-26-Speech-2-1932
lpv:speaker	lp:Jan Marinus Wiersma2
lpv:spokenAs	member; AFET (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 member; Temporary Committee on the alleged use of European countries by the CIA for the transport and illegal detention of prisoners (2006-01-19--2007-02-14)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Moldova Parliamentary Cooperation Committee (2004-09-15--2009-07-13)3 member; SEDE (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 substitute; TRAN (2004-07-21--2007-01-14)3 vice-chair; PES (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 unknown; Partij van de Arbeid (2004-07-20--2009-07-13)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Romania Joint Parliamentary Committee (2004-09-15--2006-12-31)3
lpv:translated text	". Mr President, I am speaking on behalf of Mr Moscovici, our rapporteur for Romania, who is, unfortunately, unable to be here at this important moment in time. Allow me to start by extending warm congratulations to both countries on the conclusions which the Commission presented today on Romania's and Bulgaria's accession date. I should like to extend a warm welcome to both countries, but to Romania in particular. After everything that has happened, that country’s history, 50 years of dictatorship, 15 years of hard work, it is now being rewarded by the European Union in the shape of membership. My group has been consistently in favour of both Bulgaria’s and Romania’s accession. It is the different governments, not just the current ones but also previous ones, that have generated the dynamism in Romania which has, in turn, led to the Commission reaching its conclusion. It is an enormous achievement on the part of both countries, and an historic day in Bucharest and Sofia, in Bulgaria and Romania. I am also pleased with the President of the Commission’s remark that on the basis of permanent progress those two countries have made, it can now be decided against using this delay option, but simply to make a start on 1 January of next year. The Commission has indicated that there is plenty of scopefor it to cooperate with these two new Member States in ensuring that the outstanding issues will be carefully resolved in the next few years in a process of verification and cooperation between it and them, on the basis of clear and precisely formulated goals to which both the Commission and the two governments will commit themselves. The treaty provides plenty of guarantees that the Commission will be able to ensure that the EU’s interests will be protected in that process. A year’s delay would probably have meant that both sides would no longer make the effort and it would lead to automatic membership of some sort. Instead, the progress and dynamism present in both countries is now being drawn on in order to get what is left of the accession process out of the way in a thorough manner and to clear the desks as quickly as possible. In short, congratulations, and thanks, to the Commission, thanks to Commissioner Rehn for all the work he has done over the last few years and congratulations once again to Romania and Bulgaria."@en1

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