"Croatia is Paving the Way for the Entire Balkans"

More+Comment ♦ Published: March 29, 2013; 16:41 ♦ (Vindobona)

Austria’s Vice Chancellor advocates the commission’s assessment and is looking forward to welcoming Croatia as a new EU member.

"Croatia is Paving the Way for the Entire Balkans" / Picture: © Flickr / The Austrian Foreign Ministry

"Croatia has taken its historic opportunity to become part of the European unification process by following a strict course of reforms. After agreement with Slovenia has been reached in the Ljubljanska Banka dispute, there are no more impediments for Croatia's accession to the EU" was the first response of Vice Chancellor Michael Spindelegger after the publishing of the monitoring…