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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8075

21 October 2001
INFORMAL EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF GHENT OF 19 OCTOBER - SPECIAL EDITION / (eu) eu/ghent summit
Laeken Summit may designate candidate countries able to conclude accession negotiations in 2002

Ghent, 20/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - Guy Verhofstadt proposed taking a further step along the enlargement process: he would like the European Council of Laeken to draw up a list of candidate countries ready to conclude accession negotiations in 2002. "I believe that the Laeken Summit will be able to shed further light on the enlargement negotiations process. In Gothenburg we stated that negotiations could be over in 2002 for a certain number of countries, we shall now see if it is possible to...