Strasbourg, 21/05/2013 (Agence Europe) - The presidents of the S&D and EPP Groups, Hannes Swoboda and Joseph Daul, underlined, on 21 May, how important it is to take forward the process for membership of the EU by the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM).
Swoboda had hoped that the vote on Richard Howitt's report, debated on 22 May and voted on the following day, could unblock things and allow for negotiations to begin. He said that “once Croatia joins the EU, there will be a...