No need for new commitments on enlargement, say Madrid and Rome

Spain and Italy, co-sponsors of a Western Balkans conference this spring, have set modest targets for the meeting, so as not to antagonise EU member states which want to keep EU enlargement at a slow pace of process.

There is "no need for new commitments," a joint Italian-Spanish document explaining the initiative for the so-called High Level Meeting (HLM) in Sarajevo said.

The intention of the Spanish and Italian foreign ministers, Miguel Angel Moratinos and Franco Frattini, is...