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"Ladies and gentlemen, I welcome you warmly to the formal sitting with the President of Romania.
I would also like to congratulate Romania and its people most especially on the particular advances they have achieved and the associated efforts they have sustained in order to make accession possible. Many reforms were accomplished in a relatively short period of time. These advances and triumphs must also be honoured today, but perhaps I might add, Mr President, that these reforms must also be continued, and with some determination.
The European Parliament takes pride and rejoices in its 35 new Romanian Members and also in the presence of a Romanian Commissioner in our midst. From day to day, we come across new people from your country in the Commission and in the Council. We are also all looking forward to welcoming the Members that your country will be electing in its first elections to this Parliament in May.
We all have to learn from one another, and that is something that we in this House are working on. Together with Romania and Bulgaria, we will press on with our dedicated efforts towards a united EU.
Bun venit României şi poporului român în Uniunea Europeană!
President Băsescu, I welcome you most warmly to the European Parliament.
Din toată inima vă urez, domnule Preşedinte, bine aţi venit în Parlamentul European!
It is an honour to welcome you to this House, President Băsescu, not for the first time, but for the first time as the president of a new Member State of our European Union, on behalf of whose citizens, whom we in this House represent, I wish once more to express my joy at the accession of your own country and at that of Bulgaria, whereby you have become members of our European family.
I would also again like to highlight the historic significance of the enlargement of the European Union that occurred on 1 January this year. It took over sixty years for your country to be restored to a free Europe and for our continent to be reunited.
The accession of Romania and Bulgaria constituted a massive advance in that reunification process; both these accessions will enhance the political and cultural dimension of European integration and enrich both your country and the EU itself.
I am reminded of the words of the ‘Hora Unirii’ sung on the occasion of the unification of the two principalities of Moldavia and Walachia in 1859, ‘Where one alone stands is no strength; where many stand, it grows’. This Romanian song expresses very well the European Union’s goal and vision, the potential and strength that we in Europe can bring together to give our continent a better future and our citizens prosperity.
This being so, Romania’s accession embodies the idea of European integration, cooperation and solidarity for the benefit of all those who pool their strengths in the quest for democracy, peace, equality and tolerance."@en1
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