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It will be said that the effects of the recent NATO Summit in Bucharest made themselves felt in the vote of this House today.
In other words, Croatia has seen the adoption of the report on its ‘progress’ towards accession to the EU – with it even being explicitly stated that the negotiations shall (!) be concluded before the 2009 elections – whereas the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has seen the vote on its progress report postponed.
It will be recalled that the NATO Summit decided to invite Croatia to begin accession talks, whilst those with the FYROM were postponed.
If there is one aspect that this situation once again highlights, it is that the enlargement of the EU and NATO occurs in harmony.
Among other important aspects that should be highlighted in this explanation of vote (such as the current border disputes between countries in the region, including Italy), it is noted that progress towards accession to the EU means, according to the European Commission, that the ‘economic criteria’, in other words ‘a budgetary consolidation and stability policy’, ‘structural reform of public finances’, ‘privatisation’ and ‘improving the quality of business environments’, and land reform (which means access to land ownership, particularly by foreigners), must be achieved.
Two examples of the EU at its best ..."@en1
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