07/10/2008 (Agence Europe) - The EU should speed up accession talks with Croatia, has said Hungarian MEP Pal Schmitt (EPP-ED), who chaired a meeting of the Joint EU-Croatia Parliamentary Committee (JPC) in Brussels this week. At this meeting, MPs from both sides said they thought that Croatia would be able to finalise accession talks in 2009 (before the end of the Barroso Commission). European and Croatian MPs on the JPC came out against linking, as some member states (France, Germany,...