BOTH 3-YEAR CLAUSES AND MONITORING AFTER ACCESSION

Confidential sources from the Parliament of Europe sent us a text that was yesterday on the desk of EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn. The latter is to speak up in front of the Parliament of Europe in May 26. The questions belong to members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and refer to some new versions on the post-accession years of Romania and Bulgaria.

It is mainly about means to set some safeguard clauses in Justice and internal affairs and about the use of a "close monitoring system" in the first three years after the accession to the EU. The authors of this text (Elmar Brok, president of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Parliament of Europe, Geoffrey van Orden, EU rapporteur for Bulgaria and Pierre Moscovici, EU rapporteur for Romania) are also going to ask the commission about negative and positive aspects to be considered with view to this autumn's recommendation for or against the two states' accession in January 1, 2007.

It looks like unpleasant and unexpected news, Romanian daily Ziua reporter Cristian UNTEANU in Brussels says.