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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8994

20 July 2005
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/enlargement

19/07/2005 (Agence Europe) - Dutch foreign minister Bernard Bot said on 14 July that the EU should not set any deadlines for future accession talks. Bot was speaking during a visit to Macedonia, where he said that joining the EU should be determined solely by whether the candidate country has met all accession criteria, without any pressures of deadlines. He said the Netherlands would continue to support Macedonia's application to join the EU, lodged in 2004. Macedonia has been invited to...

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