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Croatia closes another two EU chapters
Croatian Times
Croatia closes two additional chapters in Brussels today (Tue) as it nears the end of its European Union accession negotiations.
Chapter 12 on Food Safety, Veterinary & Phytosanitary Policy and chapter 32 on Financial Control are expected to be closed today. With these two chapters, Croatia will have closed 22 out of 33, with the majority of the remaining open chapters expected to be finished after the summer break.
Two of the most demanding chapters on judiciary and market competition that were opened recently are likely to be closed at the beginning of 2011. That would conclude Croatia’s EU negotiations before the summit scheduled in March, which means that the anticipated signing of the EU accession agreement in June 2011 remains a realistic goal, the Croatian daily Jutarnji List writes.
The formal opening of EU negotiations with Iceland will also take place today in Brussels. Iceland was the first state to recognize Croatia’s independence, and will now join it and Turkey, the only other two countries currently in open negotiations.
Steven Vanackere, the Belgium Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that while the EU treats all of the candidate countries equally, Iceland, as a member of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Schengen, already fulfils most of the criteria.
Earlier estimates that Iceland could enter the EU together with Croatia seem unrealistic now that Croatia is nearing the end of the negotiation process.
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