The Austrian APA news agency quoted PM Jan Peter Balkenende as saying that nothing impossible would be asked of Croatia so as to start the accession talks on 17 March next year.
With regard to Croatia's cooperation with the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, on which the EU insists, this implies that it is necessary to invest efforts and it is not necessary to offer results, Balkenende said while answering questions of deputies in the parliament who asked whether Croatia had to find and transfer the runaway general Ante Gotovina to the Hague tribunal until the start of the membership talks next year,