SPECIAL EDITION EUROPEAN COUNCIL OF COPENHAGEN / (eu) eu/copenhagen european council

European Council concludes negotiations with ten candidate countries - Cypriot sides pledge to seek agreement for 28 february 2003 - Next step for romania, bulgaria and turkey - EU-NATO Agreement - Rasmussen: Enlargement will strengthen Union - Prodi: opening debate about Europe's borders

Copenhagen, 15/12/2002 (Agence Europe) - The European Council meeting ended in Copenhagen at around 22: 00 hrs on Friday in a 25 country meeting and a family photo of all the members of the European family of the future. The President of the European Council, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, seized the opportunity to stress the truly historic nature of this moment, which he described as ending the "time of separation". He said they now had a common vision of an integrated Europe, welcoming the "ten...