27.05.08: EULEX mission delayed. Siging of SAA with Bosnia on June 16th - The Diigo Meta page

• 27 May 08
  

  Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

  enlargement enlargementpolicy_eu EULEX kosovo bosnia saa eu-policies cfsp

  • The EU on Monday (26 May) admitted there may be some delays in the deployment of its mission to Kosovo, but insisted they would not be "dramatic."
  • But question marks over the divisions of power between the UN, the EU and the local authorities, as well as over the mission's legal basis, seem likely to delay the process.
     
     "I believe EULEX could be operative on the field after the summer – September and October," Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini said after a meeting of the EU's foreign ministers in Brussels, according to Reuters.
  • Bosnia to sign pre-accession deal in June
     On Monday, the bloc's foreign ministers also announced that a pre-accession deal with Bosnia and Herzegovina would be signed on 16 June, after a two-month delay mainly due to translation issues.
    

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