Countries with EU ambitions like the Western Balkan states will not face the additional entry hurdle of the union's own "absorption capacity" after enlargement-wary states backed down on Friday.
Final conclusions of the EU leaders' gathering on Friday (16 June) produced more friendly wording for countries in the waiting room to join the bloc when compared to earlier drafts by the Austrian EU presidency.
Vienna, backed by Paris, Berlin and The Hague, had initially insisted on def...
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