Denisa Maruntoiu
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Several MEPs asked Basescu to amend the
law on international adoptions as the EP was set to assess Romania's progress
for EU accession.
A group of EU lawmakers on Tuesday evening spoke
against the current Romanian adoption law that completely bans international
adoptions and announced the EP will send an official letter to President Traian
Basescu, calling on him to amend the restrictive law on adoptions that was
enforced in January 2005. Their plea came prior to a crucial debate in the
European Parliament yesterday regarding the progress made by Romania and
Bulgaria for EU accession.
Under EU pressure Romania imposed a moratorium and then a ban on international adoptions, but promised to analyze the cases that were in the pipeline when the adoption ban was introduced. Nevertheless, a week ago the National Office for Adoptions (ORA) answered all the requests negatively, pointing out that all 1,100 "pipeline" children are either to be adopted by a Romanian family or are considered non-adoptable for various reasons.
Following ORA's final report, Conservative MEP Charles Tannock together with Jean-Marie Cavada and Frederique Ries of the European Liberals (ALDE), organized a debate about the international adoptions of Romanian children and called on the ORA to reanalyze all the requests. The MEPs said that they agreed with the initial halting of international adoptions in 2001 due to high corruption problems, but stressed that the new law, passed as a consequence of the ban, is hurting the children instead of protecting them. "Following the enforcing of the ban, many children were sent back to their biological families, thus being often neglected and abused," said Tannock.
The MEPs' appeal basically started a busy week in the EP. Yesterday, the EU Parliament held an extra session to discuss the progress that Bulgaria and Romania have made towards EU accession. The European Commission still must announce whether they consider the two countries prepared to join the EU as scheduled, on January 1, 2007. The EP yesterday heard statements from Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn, which were followed by an open debate in the assembly. MEPs did not adopt a final resolution on the date of Romania and Bulgaria's EU accession, but their debates are believed to be a reliable indicator ahead of the European Commission's monitoring report due next month. [...]
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