02/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - The French Minister for European Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, reaffirmed in a speech to the Franco-German institute in Ludugsburg that the EU must discuss, "as of now, the post enlargement, that is to say the issue of the frontiers of Europe". In fact, he felt, "a part of out citizen's questions with regard to the European building process comes from uncertainty over the final borders of the Union, from this impression of an area in perpetual expansion." The EU must "clearly offer" a view of accession to the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Albania, he said, while underlining "with force, as this will one day apply to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Albania as for Turkey, that the religious criteria must in no way be an barrier on the path to European integration." On the other hand, according to him, the EU must broach "with care and prudence" the issue of an accession of countries such as the Ukraine, Moldova or Belarus, or "Russia itself."