What Costas spoke about.

Mr President, warm congratulations to my colleague, Tonino Picula, on his report on the future of European Union-US relations, such an important and topical issue. Importantly, because close cooperation from trade to security was based on shared values, shared priorities and shared interests and so needs to continue and broaden on issues listed in the report, such as climate change, human rights, …

Mr President, this mechanism is an important tool for the accession countries to carry out the necessary reforms to fully comply with the European acquis. Congratulations to the contributors to this document. But before we reach full compliance, some fundamental conditions are laid down concerning the principle of democracy, human rights, the rule of law, respect for agreements with the European U…