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Bulgaria and Romania should have no fear for their accession date, representatives from the Party of the European Socialists consider, the Romanian Adevarul reports.
MPs from PES point out that according to them the European Commission should point out clearly what Bulgaria and Romania should perform in the next months.
At the same time the MEP Titus Corlatean is rather more pessimistic than his colleagues. He considers that Romania will not be able to finish its preparation for the short time that it has till the European Commission’s final decision on the accession date.

EU Commission spokeswoman for enlargement Krisztina Nagy told EUexpands that no decision has been taken yet on the potential date of Romania and Bulgaria EU accession has not been taken yet, Sofia News Agency reports.
Nagy was reacting to information published by the Romanian press according to which in the draft EU Commission report, to be released on 16 May, there is the recommendation for Bulgaria to join in 2008, a year later than Romania.
The possible recommendation of one or two countries EU accession delay would be found in the “summary paper” to be published along with the reports about Romania and Bulgaria, EUexpands explains.
It adds that any word, phrase or meaning could still change on 16 May in the morning, during the adoption of the package by the EU Commission.
The final decision on the date of accession of both countries would be determined however only in June during the Brussels EU Summit that would act upon EU Commission’s recommendation.

Source: Sofia News Agency