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Calendar of Meetings

State of Negotiations

European Parliament

Other EU Institutions

Acceding Countries
Candidate Countries

Member States

Statistics

Commission Press Review

Eurobarometer

Archives


Accession Treaty

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Calendar of Meetings


The calendar is updated weekly. As well as official meetings of the European Parliament and its Committees and Delegations at which enlargement issues are to be discussed, the calendar also lists important meetings of the Council, Commission and other EU institutions as well as various events organised by academic and other institutions on the enlargement theme. Where possible, hyperlinks to the relevant documentation are given.

Calendar of Meetings



top State of negotiations


A regularly updated table Accession Negotiations: State of Play (latest version: 30 June 2004) published on the European Commission Enlargement website shows which chapters of the negotiations have been closed by each of the candidate countries.

More details of each negotiating chapter are also available there, or in the European Parliament's Factsheets on the Negotiations, a series of concise information sheets giving for each country and chapter a summary of the acquis as provided by the Commission, the progress/results of the negotiations, any positions adopted by the EP and the conclusions of the latest Commission Regular report.



top European Parliament
  • The role of the EP in the enlargement process is described, with links to key documents. Annexes (PDF, English only) list all EP resolutions and other texts grouped by year from 2001 (earlier documents in the archive), with short summaries and links to the Legislative Observatory, which gives full information on official texts and more detailed summaries. EP Resolutions on enlargement (June-December 2002)

  • Press Service Background Information on enlargement and related issues.

  • EP political group webpages on enlargement:
    • EPP-ED (Group of the European People's Party (Christian Democrats) and European Democrats)
    • PES (Group of the Party of European Socialists)
    • ELDR (Group of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party)


  • EP Delegations to Joint Parliamentary Committees

  • Joint Debate on Enlargement, 9 April 2003, before the vote in which the EP gave its assent to the accession of all ten countries with which accession negotiations had been concluded:

    | ES |  | DA |  | DE |  | EL |  | EN |  | FR |  | IT |  | NL |  | PT |  | FI |  | SV |

  • Extraordinary debate on the future of the European Union after enlargement, with the participation of Members of national parliaments from the then applicant countries - Strasbourg, 19/11/2002 (Verbatim report, delegations, press).

  • Brochure: Reuniting Europe - The fifth enlargement.


top Other EU Institutions


Europarl pages giving links to the websites of the other institutions as well as the texts of key documents such as European Council Presidency Conclusions and links to enlargement webpages of the most relevant Commission Directorates-General.


European Council Presidency Conclusions
European Commission Enlargement Webpages



topCountries which acceded on 1 May 2004

Country profiles and lists of useful links.

CyprusCzech Rep.EstoniaHungary
LatviaLithuaniaMaltaPoland
Slovak Rep.Slovenia  

topCandidate countries

Country profiles and lists of useful links.

BulgariaRomaniaTurkey



topMember States

Links to the relevant sites of the Governments of the Member States.

Belgïe/BelgiqueDanmarkDeutschland.Ellas
EspanaFranceIrelandItalia
LuxembourgNederlandÖsterreichPortugal
Suomi-FinlandSverigeUnited Kingdom 



topStatistics


A series of tables updated quarterly in PDF format by the European Parliament's Parliamentary Documentation Centre gives statistics on trade etc. for each candidate country as well as a comparative table of basic statistics for all.

Statistics



topCommission Press Review


Link to the Commission's on-line press cuttings service which enables users to select articles on enlargement themes.

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topEurobarometer 
Link to the Eurobarometer site 

Eurobarometer site



topArchives


This part of the site contains information and documents from the original EP Enlargement website, including thematic briefings prepared by the Directorate-General for Research over the period 1998-2000.

Archives

topTreaty of Accession


...of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union.

Provisional version, published here on 16 April 2003

Athens Declaration 16 April 2003
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