Brussels, 14/03/2000 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission's Director General for enlargement, Eneko Landaburu, has launched an appeal to applicant countries not to attach too much importance on dates of accession, but focus their efforts on the "essential" issues, ie., the respect of the accession criteria.
"I understand that there should be irritation and requests in some applicant countries regarding dates for concluding negotiations and for accession. When my country, Spain, was a...