Monday, November 20, 2006

FROM ALL SIDES: Brussels puts paid to Balkan hopes - and Europe’s fears - of speedy accession / Balkan Insight, 20 Nov 2006

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Gjeraqina Tuhina
"Slow pace of reforms means European Commission doesn't expect new members anytime soon for enlargement-weary EU. An enlargement strategy paper, published on November 8 by the European Commission, advised Western Balkan countries against making any new moves towards joining the European Union. The document has been primarily influenced by the limited advances of the hopeful states in meeting political and economic conditions on the EU’s promise to allow them to one day join. However, so-called “enlargement fatigue” in the EU itself has played a large part in setting the EC’s cautious agenda."