While Croatia and Macedonia got all votes, the turkish case still divides MEPs.
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Opposition Social Democrat Ivo Josipovic convincingly won the presidential election yesterday (10 January), promising to help the government’s efforts to complete European Union membership talks and join the bloc in 2012.
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Sciences-Po director of reaserch and Balkans expert, interviewed by euractiv, goes back on the possible consequences of the croatian new president’s election on the EU membership process.
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Corruption and an unreliable legal framework are hindering the economic development of the Western Balkans, notes a report by the European Association of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, published on 13 November.
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Despite calls for it to join earlier, realistically Croatia’s EU accession in 2012 would still represent a great success, Mirko Galic, Croatia’s ambassador to France, told EurActiv France in an exclusive interview.
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Members of the European Parliament voiced strong warnings on 4 November against increased meddling by the Croat Catholic church in the country’s internal and external affairs.
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The flaws in Eastern Europe’s model of growth have been exposed by the financial crisis and commodity-reliant countries like Russia must expand their industrial base to make them more resilient, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an annual report on 2 November.
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Croatia will open six and close five negotiating chapters with the EU next Friday (2 October), following a vote in the Slovenian parliament to unblock negotiations which had been put on ice over a border dispute between the two former Yugoslav republics.
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