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EU talks with Croatia postponed

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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