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Parliament majority follows Rapporteur Brok in proposing “close multilateral relationship” with all European countries currently without prospect of membership

Strasbourg, 16/03/2006 (Agence Europe) - On 16 March, the European Parliament broadly followed its rapporteur on EU enlargement strategy, Elmar Brok (EPP-ED), calling on the Commission and Council to “submit, for all European countries currently without a membership perspective, proposals for a close multilateral relationship with the EU”, and stressing that “it is up to all countries with recognised membership perspective to join this multilateral framework as an intermediate step...