Member states were on Wednesday (16 March) unable to agree unanimously that EU talks with Croatia be opened, meaning that the start of negotiations has been postponed for at least a month.
The postponement - the first in the EU's history - came after the majority of member states remained unconvinced that Zagreb had co-operated fully with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague.
"After deliberation by the council and in the absence of a co...
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