Brussels, 24/10/2000 (Agence Europe) - Several candidate countries of the Helsinki Group (the group composed of countries that began their accession negotiations at the beginning of this year: Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Latvia, Lithuania and Malta) made, on Tuesday, a further major step forward in their effort to catch-up the six applicant countries of the Luxembourg group (which began negotiations in March 1998, by completing talks on several chapters of acquis communautaire. In the new...