Word: rupel
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...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 are in the uncomfortable position...