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

Some work remains to be done in the accession negotiations.

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

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

Can we carry on accession negotiations with such a country?

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

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

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

That will be a difficult issue during the accession negotiations.

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