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3/10/06

NIS Bullitin: CDA Wants New EU Category: Partnership

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CDA Wants New EU Category: Partnership

THE HAGUE, 11/03/06 - The Christian democrats (CDA) in the Netherlands do not want to offer any new countries candidate EU membership offering prospects of full membership of the EU. Instead, countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia-Montenegro and Albania should be offered a 'Partnership', according to a discussion memorandum. CDA parliamentary leader Maxime Verhagen has embraced the document. It also states that countries in Africa and the Middle East would not be eligible to join the EU. Nor does the CDA favour future membership for Ukraine, according to Verhagen.

For the CDA, the EU Constitution belongs to the past. This was rejected last year in referenda in the Netherlands and France. But a new treaty must by some means be created to replace the Treaty of Nice, according to the CDA. The party does not then want to hold another referendum.

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