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...next 12 months will apply equally to the new members, and there's unease that instead of promoting reform, the enlargement process could take a back seat to it. "The really serious issue is whether the E.U. becomes divided into a fast-moving core and a slower group," says Dimitrij Rupel, Slovenia's Foreign Minister. "We don't want to be on the periphery."Under the proposed rules, delegates from candidate countries are full participants at the Convention - except that they "cannot block" any consensus among the current 15. However that ambiguous provision is interpreted, candidate countries...
...cease-fire terms under which the army would withdraw its troops and Slovenia would suspend claims to sovereignty. But the arrangement seems tenuous at best. The Slovenian government stated that it had agreed only to hold off for three months on further steps toward independence. Said Slovenian foreign minister Dimitrij Rupel: "What we've done, we shall keep." After the army issued another harsh threat of "decisive military action," the Slovenian parliament voted to affirm its independence stand...
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