The success of the New Pact will depend on its capacity to turn consultation into genuine partnership, to balance ambition with realism and to show it has learned from past experience.
With the enlargement of the EU from fifteen to twenty-five members, a new «Wider Europe» debate rises high on the EU agenda, as complementary to the draft Constitution prepared by the European Convention.
It would surprise many to hear the year 2003 described as one of the most transcendent periods in the Middle East, since there have been many periods that deserve this standing.
Italy presented its July-December 2003 EU Presidency programme at the Council held on 21st July 2003.
The year 2003 ended with yet another failure of the attempts to revitalise the Arab Maghreb Union.
It would surprise many to hear the year 2003 described as one of the most transcendent periods in the Middle East.
The two old Balkan states of Serbia and Montenegro decided in March 2002 to bring the idea of a Yugoslav federation to an end.
As it has been at so many points in its history, in the current time Slovenia is once again acting as a passage country, on the border between the West and East of Europe.
The enlargement of the European Union on 1st May 2004 will bring ten new members into the Union, and the process clearly represents an event of supreme importance for all the new member states and the European Union as a whole.
At the end of the year 2002, observers in the European Union were predicting that the forthcoming year 2003 would be a difficult and decisive one.
The second half of 2002 and the first half of 2003 would not prove to be an easy time for achieving progress in the Euro-Mediterranean Partnership.
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