ZAGREB, March 29 (Hina) - The president of the Regions of EuropeInstitute and a member of the European Union Committee of the Regions,Franz Schausberger, said in Pula on Tuesday regionalism would play animportant role in Croatia's EU
admission and that in this respectCroatia had progressed the most among the other candidate countries --Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania.
ZAGREB, March 29 (Hina) - The president of the Regions of Europe
Institute and a member of the European Union Committee of the Regions, Franz
Schausberger, said in Pula on Tuesday regionalism would play an important role
in Croatia's EU admission and that in this respect Croatia had progressed the
most among the other candidate countries -- Turkey, Bulgaria and Romania. He said Croatia's Constitution was the closest to the future EU
Constitution and that these things should be the criteria for admitting a
country to the EU because they were more important than those currently at the
forefront, such as cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal.
Schausberger today visited Istria County in the northern Adriatic,
presenting prefect Ivan Jakovcic with a charter as the leader of one of the
four regions which founded the Salzburg-based Regions of Europe Institute. The
others are Upper Austria, Austria and Tyrol.
The institute will be inaugurated in May. Jakovcic said the intention
was to make it an unavoidable institution of European regionalism.