The report gave a broadly positive outlook on the country's EU aspirations, saying it had made good political and economic reform, although it says that moreneeds to be done to tackle organised crime.
But that means that the EP needs to be more vigorous, more ambitious than it has been so far in driving the reform of the EU as a whole, which is desperately needed.
The latest estimates suggest that Venezuela needs nearly 1m more houses than it has, whether in town or country (where land reform, as in most of Latin America, lags far behind needs or even the law).