Rasmussen steps up warnings on enlargement

EU leaders have stepped up warnings against delaying enlargement, stressing that if the present opportunity to enlarge is postponed, a historic chance will be missed. Danish prime minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, warned on Monday that the EU cannot afford missing the historic window of opportunity to finalise accession negotiations with the candidate countries by the end of 2002, amid concerns accession talks risk being delayed by internal EU wrangling over financing new countries’ agricultur...