Some work remains to be done in the accession negotiations.

That will be a difficult issue during the accession negotiations.

Accession negotiations for were opened four years later, in March 1998.

Can we carry on accession negotiations with such a country?

According to this decision accession negotiations are to start in April 1998.

For some months the pace of the accession negotiations has been very fast.

The accession negotiations with Croatia have got off to a good start.

The accession negotiations with Croatia have, until recently, been going well.

Allow me to tell you what we can do within the framework of accession negotiations.

These two countries have made tremendous progress in their accession negotiations, but are not ready yet.

For instance, the accession negotiations with Turkey are likely to take 10 to 15 years.

We now know that there was an oversight in our accession negotiations.

Last December, we wound up accession negotiations with ten countries.

It shows that the country is close to completing the accession negotiations.

We want to push ahead with the accession negotiations during our presidency.

On 15 February 2000 the accession negotiations were formally opened.

Such tensions and problems must be resolved before accession negotiations start.

These two issues alone are indicative of the many questions raised by Turkey’s accession negotiations.

In spite of this, accession negotiations have not yet begun.

One consequence could be to extend the future accession negotiations.

Accession negotiations are expected to take about 10 years.

Now is the time to initiate real and genuine accession negotiations with the country.

We should break off the accession negotiations as quickly as possible.

If we agree to start accession negotiations we should see them through.

There was to have been either a breakthrough in accession negotiations or an end of the talks.