As the European Commission is due to present its new methodology for the EU accession process on Wednesday, several sources confirmed to EUROPE on Tuesday 4 February that it would be close to the proposals made by France, which had called for the reform of the process (see EUROPE B12371A17).
Thus, according to the Macedonian news agency Mia, which published an unconsolidated draft on 31 January, the proposal would put forward four axes, which have been confirmed to EUROPE. These are...