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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9636

5 April 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/enlargement
Elmar Brok wants tougher 'EU integration capacity' criterion - Concentric circles

Brussels, 04/04/2008 (Agence Europe) -The European Parliament is preparing to elaborate in greater detail and tighten the 'EU absorption capacity' criterion, as one of the four Copenhagen criteria to be respected when new countries join the EU. This fourth Copenhagen criterion, formulated by the European Council in 1993, has never before been defined in detail. In a draft report on the EU's enlargement strategy, to be voted upon by the EP's foreign affairs committee at the end of May 2008...

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