Croatia is aiming to join the EU before 2009, with the European Commission saying talks are moving quickly, but declining to endorse the target date.
"It would be great if Croats could participate in European elections in 2009. That is the target my government is working towards", Croat prime minister Ivo Sanader said in Brussels on Thursday evening (15 December).
He added that Zagreb had already adopted "a lot of laws" to fit in with the EU's acquis communautaire legal ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.