Verheugen: A single market from Jerusalem to Oslo

Günter Verheugen, EU Enlargement Commissioner, is already looking well beyond next year's intake of ten new states.

"A billion consumers in a huge economic area from Oslo to Jerusalem", he is quoted as saying by Austria's Die Presse.

However, this would be a different type of relationship with the EU - where future states do not necessarily become full members.

Speaking after a Central European conference in Vienna on Monday, Mr Verheugen said "I can imagine that Israel will...