03.09.08: Forthcoming Presidencies will focus on the Balkans - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 Sep 08
  

  Prof. Dr Wolfgang Schumann

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  • EU enlargement, particularly to the Western Balkan countries, is set to feature high on the agenda of the bloc's two presidencies in 2009, with Croatia seen as likely to conclude its EU membership talks next year, said the Czech Republic and Sweden - the next two member states to hold the EU's six-month rotating chairmanship after France.

  • During the presentation of their common programme, the current presidential trio - France, the Czech Republic and Sweden - also stressed their general support for the whole Balkan region and its "path towards EU integration."

      

    "The whole region will be a priority during our consecutive presidencies," Ms Malmstrom pointed out.

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