Nastase expects "additional support" from the EU

Premier Adrian Nastase and President Ion Iliescu tomorrow will attend the meeting between the heads of EU states or governments and their counterparts from the EU applicant countries, organised in Laeken, Belgium, reads a press release issued by the Government.

This meeting will allow participants to learn the conclusions of the European Council.

The Belgian chair will present the conclusions of the summit and the participants will afterwards exchange opinions on the issues of a special importance to the applicant countries and especially the outlook of the enlargement process and European future.

“The Government hopes that the Laeken summit will be a turning point in the accession process (…). We expect the European leaders to reconfirm that enlargement is a EU priority, a unitary and irreversible process,” reads the press release.

The Executive also considers that there are all the chances that the European Council in Laeken should confirm and restate what had been agreed in Goteborg regarding the additional funds to be granted to Romania and Bulgaria for EU accession. Mediafax