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Tue 07 Jul 2009Iceland bid to join EU advances as Balkan states wait
EU FOREIGN ministers have opened the door to Iceland’s future EU accession by calling on the European Commission to assess its fitness to join the union.
They also moved yesterday to relieve concerns among candidate countries in the fragile Balkans region that their own bids to join the union would be pushed back.
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