Brussels, 08/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - Visiting Malta on 5 and 6 March, President Prodi and Commissioner Verheugen "praised Malta's progress towards accession" of the European Union. They recalled that, thanks to the fact that the negotiating system by groups of candidates had been abandoned, it was now possible for Malta, depending on its progress in adopting the acquis communautaire, to catch up the with the candidate countries who had started negotiating in 1998. The Commissioner and...