Det led under et kommunistisk regime og lider under det den dag i dag. Men dette land vil først rigtig kunne blive en stabil partner til EU, når det ikke udelukkende er en økonomisk faktor, men en fri retsstat, et demokrati, hvor der eksisterer tros- og samvittighedsfrihed, og vi beder om, at man energisk og uforbeholdent støtter op om dette i morgen i Bruxelles!
Like Germany, it was a divided country; it endured a Communist regime and suffers its effects to this day, but it will be able to become a stable partner to the European Union only when it has become, no longer merely an economic factor, but a free state under the rule of law, a democracy in which freedom of faith and conscience prevail, and we ask you, tomorrow in Brussels, to employ your energies without reserve so that it may become that!