BELGRADE, April 21 (Hina) - Belgrade-based electronic media and some newspapers reported that the the European Commission gave the green light to Croatia to enter negotiations on EU membership, saying that "this west Balkan country
meet a majority of the political and economic criteria for the start of official negotiations", and that its candidate status would be discussed at the EU summit in June.
BELGRADE, April 21 (Hina) - Belgrade-based electronic media and some
newspapers reported that the the European Commission gave the green
light to Croatia to enter negotiations on EU membership, saying that
"this west Balkan country meet a majority of the political and
economic criteria for the start of official negotiations", and that
its candidate status would be discussed at the EU summit in June.#L#
Beta news agency ran a more detailed article which was cited by Danas
daily. It says that "the most important part of the avis is the
assessment of meeting the political criteria and in Croatia's case an
assessment on the country's cooperation with the ICTY is of great
importace, given that some EU member states, notably Great Britain,
said they would not support Croatia's candidacy status without full
cooperation with the ICTY"
Radio B92 in its morning news broadcast pointed to the fact that ICTY
chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte had positively assessed Croatia's
cooperation with the Hague-based tribunal, which was one of the
crucial factors for the European Commission's positive avis.
(Hina) it