ZAGREB, Feb 15 (Hina) - Candidates for membership in the European Union should be evaluated individually, Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel said in an interview with Croatian Television on Saturday evening.
ZAGREB, Feb 15 (Hina) - Candidates for membership in the European
Union should be evaluated individually, Austrian Chancellor
Wolfgang Schuessel said in an interview with Croatian Television on
Saturday evening. #L#
Schuessel said he had never liked the term Western Balkans because
it seemed to denote a group of equally developed countries, which in
his opinion was not true.
Croatia has always been a European country and oriented towards
Europe and it currently meets the most criteria for applying for
full EU membership, he said.
Asked whether the EU was able to guarantee peace for all, Schuessel
said the EU had been founded as a peace union, which was the original
idea of its creators.
Today the EU, which has 15 and following expansion will have 25
members, is really a zone of peace and stability. It is
understandable that we wish and have to expand that zone of
stability, the Austrian chancellor said.
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