Czech Republic: membership application and partnership, 17 January 1996

The Parliament adopted its resolution, drafted by Mr. Carlos CARNERO GONZALES (GUE, Spain) concerning the Czech Republic's progress towards EU accession. The resolution calls for the accession process to be speeded up and welcomes the national consensus in the country favouring EU membership. It notes the concerns about the position of the Roma minority and calls on the Czech government to repeal laws from 1945 and 1946 relating to the expulsion of individual ethnic groups. It also expresses its concern that there needs to be greater progress in the fields of administrative and judicial reform and the privatisation of state banks.�