The European Commission is going to state Wednesday 5 November that Romania and Bulgaria should sign a common accession treaty by the end of 2005 at the latest, in order to become EU members in 2007.
The phrasing in the European Commission's regular reports on the candidate countries, seen by the EUobserver, ties together these two countries that have made different progress towards European integration.
Bulgaria is much c...
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