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"Thank you for the floor, Mr President. The new Europe is now coming into our reach, in that the dividing lines that were drawn up so skilfully in the past have ceased to exist, and this will have a bigger impact than anything else on the everyday lives of all of us who live in the area. I would like to congratulate and thank the Portuguese Presidency for creating the opportunity and the technical framework for the events of today. We would like to thank Commissioner Frattini for the help that these Member States have received. Last, but not least, I would like to thank my colleague, Mr Coelho, for his sense of vocation in dealing with this matter.
We can now feel the advantages of enlargement as a physical reality, and also the symbolic and practical importance of being able, for example, to cross the bridges of the Danube without checks, or rowing across the Danube, which was an inconceivable dream for our parents. The precious desires of generations are coming true. In this way, history now admits that our young heroes of 1956 were right.
At the same time, we must do everything to extend this zone as soon as possible to Bulgaria and Romania, who acceded recently. In this latter case – for example in the case of Transylvania – the Romanian-Hungarian border will be so important, and it can only be compared to what must have been felt when the Franco-German border was dissolved, by the people living there.
At the same time, we cannot forget that checks will be even more stringent at the external borders of the Schengen zone. For this reason, the ethnic groups living outside our borders, the Hungarians living in Vojvodina and Subcarpathia, will be at a disadvantage: our close contact with them is a condition for their staying there and a constitutional obligation for us. The external borders cannot turn into a new iron curtain for these communities. It is only in this way, paying attention to those who remain outside, that the celebrations for opening up the borders can be complete for us. Thank you for the floor."@en1
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