VIENNA, March 24 (Hina) - Croatia's Ivo Sanader Cabinet has greatly contributed to the process of reconciliation and the European People's Party (EPP) highly appreciates this, EPP chairman Hans-Gert Poetering said in Vienna on
Thursday.
VIENNA, March 24 (Hina) - Croatia's Ivo Sanader Cabinet has greatly
contributed to the process of reconciliation and the European People's
Party (EPP) highly appreciates this, EPP chairman Hans-Gert Poetering
said in Vienna on Thursday.#L#
It should therefore not be surprising that Sanader's policy and
efforts in connection with reconciliation, as well as Croatia's road
to the European Union, are viewed with great sympathy, Poetering told
reporters after the EPP Study Days, a meeting which pooled
representatives of Europe's Christian Democrat and Conservative
parties, including Sanader, Croatia's prime minister and leader of the
Croatian Democratic Union.
Poetering said the EPP would welcome the start of negotiations between
Croatia and the EU.
Sanader said at the news conference the Croatian government was trying
to meet the EU's criteria not because of the EU but because it was
Croatia's future.
The head of the People's Party's Austrian delegation in the European
Parliament, Ursula Stenzel, told reporters she did not understand why
the EU was more demanding of Croatia than of Turkey. She extended her
full support to Croatia on its road to the EU.
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