Olli Rehn
Olli Rehn
Olli Ilmari Rehn; born 31 March 1962 in Mikkeli, Finland) is a Finnish politician, who is the Minister of Economic Affairs in Juha Sipilä's cabinet. Previously, he served as European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs and the Euro of the European Commission from 2009 to 2014 and the European Commissioner for Enlargement from 2004 to 2010. Rehn is a member of the Centre Party of Finland...
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The agreement ... paves the way for a smooth adoption of the negotiating framework and thus the opening of the accession negotiations with Turkey,
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The agreement between the member states paves the way for a smooth adoption of the negotiating framework and thus the opening of the accession negotiations with Turkey on Oct. 3,
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We recommend a constitutional evolution, rather than a constitutional revolution,
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Today we are marking the start of the talks
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A suspension of negotiations would not provide any improvement in the situation for the moment.
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This means 71 veto points for each member state. That is quite a strong safeguard
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It is now high time to complete the work, locate, arrest and transfer Ratko Mladic to The Hague without delay and if that is not the case in the next few days then we have no other option than to call off the next negotiation round.
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It is high time that Serbia reaches full co-operation with the ICTY. That is the way to avoid the disruption of the negotiations, that the negotiations would be put on hold when the next round takes place.
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Suspension of negotiations is certainly one alternative, and I expect that the Serbian government will take this message very seriously. Serbia has to chose now between its nationalist past and a European future.
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Before April 5, we'll have to decide whether we can hold the negotiation round or whether this negotiation round will have to be put on hold because of lack of full cooperation by Serbia.
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Serbia truly is at a crossroads today. It's clear 2006 is a year of major challenges.
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Serbia still has some weeks to achieve full cooperation -- roughly at the end of March.
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I hope member states can soon agree on what the accession of a 28th member state would mean in terms of the composition of the commission and voting rights in the council,
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If Serbia-Montenegro still fails to achieve full cooperation with the (International Criminal Tribunal for ex-Yugoslavia) we cannot avoid disruption of the negotiations.