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Soon, accession package of 10 countries: EU commissioner

"On enlargement, let's see if states will be ready in 2030"

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(ANSA) - MADRID, SEP 28 - "Today, we mainly talked about the enlargement of the Union. We are already drafting rules and taking action to launch a European debate on achieving these accessions," Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi reported at the end of the informal meeting of European affairs ministers in Murcia.
    "We confirmed that it is a merit-based process - he explained - and the candidate countries must accept some already established criteria necessary to give credibility to the Union.
    We talked about how to accelerate this process. A new enlargement package of ten candidate countries with the prospect of accession is imminent. We want to create new opportunities to integrate these countries into the single market before accession." The commissioner said, "It's up to the countries to take advantage of these opportunities. A treaty change is not necessary to accept these countries." "When the Council is ready - he added - so will the Commission; the question, if anything, is whether the enlargement countries will be ready by 2030." (ANSA).
   

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