8th Stabilisation and Association Council with Croatia

11^th June 2012

On 6th June during the 8th Stabilisation and Association Council between the European Union and Croatia, the European Commissioner for Enlargement and the Neighbourhood Policy, Stefan Füle announced that this might be last meeting before Croatia's accession. In spite of the progress observed, Stefan Füle did however recall that Croatia still had to implement all of the measures pinpointed in the most recent report dated 24th Apri regarding reform efforts, in particular in key areas such as competition policy, judiciary and fundamental rights as well as justice, freedom and security, and in pursuing further economic reforms. Stefan Füle encouraged Croatia to keep up its work to set in place a real civil service. Finally the Stabilisation and Association Council invited Croatia to focus more particularly on the right to establishment, on the freedom to provide services, agricultural and rural development, food safety, regional policy and the coordination of structural instruments as well as on climate change.

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