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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8800

6 October 2004
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/enlargement
Commission confirms 1 January 2007 as probable date for Bulgarian and Romanian accession - opening negotiations with Croatia next year

Brussels, 05/10/2004 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday the European Commission will confirm in its 2004 regular reports on Bulgaria and Romania that the two candidate countries should be able to fulfil the economic criteria by 2007 and that they in principle will be able to join the EU on 1 January that year. However, the Commission also explains in its reports that the future accession treaty for Bulgaria and Romania will contain a reinforced safeguard clause that would allow the EU to decide...

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