BERLIN, April 30 (Hina) - The chairman of the German Parliament's Committee on the European Union and spokesman for the Christian Democrat Union CDU/CSU for European issues, Matthias Wissmann, told "Freie Presse" daily from Chemnitz
on Friday that the expansion of the EU through the admission of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania in 2007 would be completed in the foreseeable future.
BERLIN, April 30 (Hina) - The chairman of the German Parliament's
Committee on the European Union and spokesman for the Christian
Democrat Union CDU/CSU for European issues, Matthias Wissmann, told
"Freie Presse" daily from Chemnitz on Friday that the expansion of the
EU through the admission of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania in 2007
would be completed in the foreseeable future.#L#
Showing with this statement that he saw Croatia in the EU in 2007,
Wissmann, the minister of transport in the government of Helmut Kohl,
said he believed that other Balkan countries as well as Ukraine and
Turkey should not harbour any illusions about joining the EU. Wissmann
believes that the admission of those countries would overburden the EU
and lead to its disintegration.
The admission of new EU members, due to take place on May 1, has been
marked in Germany by debates about the EU's final borders. While the
possibility of Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania joining the bloc is in
most cases not an issue, Turkey's full EU membership is being hotly
debated.
(Hina) rml