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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10877
EUROPEAN COUNCIL / (ae) serbia

Accession negotiations to start with conference in January 2014

Brussels, 28/06/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Friday 28 June, the heads of state and/or government decided to open accession negotiations with Serbia, thus following the recommendations that their foreign ministers made on 25 June (see EUROPE 10874). The decision to fix a date is “a historic decision”, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso stressed.

“The first intergovernmental conference with Serbia” will be held at the latest in January 2014, the European Council said. A...