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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8850

17 December 2004
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/bulgaria
No more obstacles to Bulgaria's accession, say MEPs, insisting on separate dealings with Bulgaria and Romania

Strasbourg, 16/12/2004 (Agence Europe) - There are no further obstacles to Bulgaria's accession to the EU, said the Parliament's rapporteur, the British conservative Geoffrey van Orden, at the plenary session on Wednesday: a date should now be fixed for the signature of the treaty, a separate one (from that with Romania) if necessary. There are still problems (the judicial system, the Roma minorities, although they too must accept some changes, said Mr Van Orden,), but the country is ready...

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