06/03/2003 (Agence Europe) - The Commission's spokesperson said on Thursday that the early warning letters the Commission intends to send to nine of the ten candidate countries to warn them against delays incurred in certain legislative and administrative preparations for accession (see yesterday's EUROPE, p.9) will not leave before next week or the week after. Formalisation of the decision (expected for 5 March) had to be deferred at the last minute for lack of time, but the content of the...