EU Panel Recommends 10 Nations as Members
The European Union’s executive commission declared eight Eastern European nations, Cyprus and Malta nearly ready for EU membership and recommended that they be invited to join in 2004.
The 93-page commission report said membership talks with Malta, Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Slovakia have gone well enough to justify bringing them into the EU.
The panel said another candidate, Turkey, failed to meet political and economic membership criteria and needs to clean up its human rights record.
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