Brussels, 23/11/2000 (Agence Europe) - At its meeting on 20 November, the Steering Committee of the European Movement (International) considered that EU accession negotiations "are progressing satisfactorily, but that public opinion in Member States does not really understand the situation, the debate tending to focus too often on a possible target date for completing these negotiations". The negotiations should be complemented by a "parliamentary-level political dialogue", says the Movement, calling on the IGC to open, within the European Conference, "a body for dialogue between the parliaments of Member States, those of the applicant States and the European Parliament", in order to "go beyond the purely bureaucratic level and bring the debate to the level of the citizens of the Union".