2 Amendments of Joost LAGENDIJK related to 2007/2271(INI)
Amendment 76 #
Motion for a resolution
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1. Reaffirms its firm commitment to the countries with which it has started membership negotiations and to the countries which have been given clear membership prospects, with the understanding that candidate countries should fully compliancey with the Copenhagen criteria and compatibility with the Union's integration capacity must be fulfilledthat the Union should ensure that its integration capacity allows for further enlargement before these countries can join the Union;
Amendment 111 #
Motion for a resolution
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3. Recalls that integration capacity reflects the Union's ability at a given point in time to decide and thus to achieve its political objectives, in particular the aim of promoting economic and social progress and a high level of employment in its Member States, of asserting its identity and its ability to act on the international scene, of promoting the rights and interests of Member States' nationals, of developing an area of freedom, security and justice, of fully maintaining and building on its acquis communautaire and of upholding fundamental rights and freedoms, as laid down in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union;