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"en.20110216.11.3-391-000"2
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"By June 2011, candidate country Croatia will have completed its negotiations for accession to the European Union. I am pleased with the progress of the negotiations, but I want to see action before then. I do not want us to regret Croatia’s accession later: let Bulgaria’s and Romania’s accession be a hard lesson to us. On paper, combating corruption is clearly one of the priorities of the Croatian Government, but we have seen very few corruption cases actually come to court. The vast majority of cases remain stuck at the investigation stage. This is remarkably often the case where senior officials are under investigation. I want to see Zagreb take action. After all, Croatia will receive some EUR 4 billion euros after it joins the EU. We must be able to trust the Croatian politicians who will be responsible for spending that money.
We must learn from our experience with Bulgaria and Romania. These countries joined the EU too quickly and, as a result, European money has found its way into all the wrong kinds of pockets. Thus, as long as the fight against corruption remains stuck at the current level, we will be unable to complete the negotiation process with Croatia: it is as simple as that."@en1
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