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"Accession negotiations with Croatia are at cruising speed for the moment. As you may recall, the talks began on 3 October 2005 or, to be precise, 4 October, because it was late at night or early in the morning, depending on the definition in Luxembourg. The screening process was completed one year later, in October 2006, and all 33 screening reports have been submitted to the Council.
The current state of play is that negotiations have been opened on 14 chapters out of 35, and closed on two chapters. We are moving forward at a steady pace. I would like to add that, on 10 chapters, we have agreed opening benchmarks – or they have been agreed by the Council, to be more precise – which have been communicated to Croatia. For the moment, we consider only the opening benchmark on justice, freedom and security to be met. However, we hope that the work being done by Croatia to meet opening benchmarks will allow us to recommend opening negotiations on a further one or two chapters rather soon.
To conclude, what is most important in terms of the next steps is more progress on the most difficult chapters. This mainly concerns those chapters where opening benchmarks have been set. Ultimately, the pace of Croatia’s progress towards the European Union will be determined by its own ability to meet all the necessary conditions on the basis of its own merits."@en1
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