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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8230

12 June 2002
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/enlargement
Candidates manage to tidy up negotiating table, patiently awaiting EU15 position on agriculture (including direct aid)

Luxembourg, 11/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - The ministerial sessions of accession negotiations, on Monday and Tuesday in Luxembourg, allowed the negotiating table to be swept clean of the last outstanding "technical" problems before tackling, over coming months, the real political difficulties linked to the funding of enlargement: agriculture (mainly direct aid), regional policy and the budgetary contribution of the future new members. Thus, Cyprus and Lithuania both closed 28 chapters out of...

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