Material from the Directorate General 1A - External Relations: Europe and the New Independent States, Common Foreign and Security Policy and External Relations, with documents dealing mainly with the European Council Summits rearding the various criteria for enlargement, statements on candidate countries, presentation of "Agenda 2000" - details of the Commission's opinion on Bulgaria's, Hungary's, Poland's, Romania's, Slovakia's, Latvia's, Estonia's, Lithuania's, Bulgaria's, Czech Republic's, and Slovenia's applications for membership of the European Union and details of the screening excercise and the Cophenhagen Political Criteria, preparation for accession negotiations, opening of accession negotiations, economic aspects of enlargement, frontier problems and reflections by Avery.

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