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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10409
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (ae) eu/croatia

Negotiations concluded, accession in 2013

Brussels, 30/06/2011 (Agence Europe) - After six years of difficult negotiations, begun in October 2005 (at the same time as Turkey's), and 20 years virtually to the day after achieving independence, Croatia formally completed talks on accession to the EU with the closure on Thursday 30 June of the four remaining chapters (judiciary and fundamental freedoms, budget, competition policy, and various). The accession treaty, which now has to be drafted in the EU's 23 official languages, will be...

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