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Croatia hopes to become the EU's 28th member by 2011 at the latest. (Photo: European Commission)

Croatia gets reassurance on EU bid

EU enlargement, particularly to the Western Balkan countries, is set to feature high on the agenda of the bloc's two presidencies in 2009, with Croatia seen as likely to conclude its EU membership talks next year, said the Czech Republic and Sweden - the next two member states to hold the EU's six-month rotating chairmanship after France.

The Balkans seem to have been somehow "forgotten in the light of the current [Georgia] crisis," Czech deputy prime minister Alexandr Vondra, whose cou...

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Croatia hopes to become the EU's 28th member by 2011 at the latest. (Photo: European Commission)

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