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With just days to go before the Copenhagen summit on 12-13 December, where the European Union aim is to close accession negotiations with most of the candidate countries, last week was dominated by the presentation of individual packages that - it was hoped - could represent a final deal.
The European Union Presidency and the European Commission spent last Tuesday in a series of meetings with Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovak Republic and Slovenia. Denmark's permanent representative to the EU, Poul Skyte Christophersen, and the Commission's director general for enlargement, Eneko Landaburu, spelled out improved terms for a settlement to each of them.
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These packages are the result of intensive, informal discussions between the EU Presidency, the Commission and each candidate country following the Brussels European Council on 24-25 October. The Presidency said that with these proposals, "everything has now been presented, and nothing has been kept back for later".
These offers will ensure that each of the candidates will be financially better off after accession than before membership. They provide an extra €1 billion for budgetary compensation, to be shared out among the candidates on the basis of their respective gross national incomes. They include another €0.9 billion to help pay for accelerated preparations for the candidates' accession to the Schengen area - assisting with expenses such as for border control and justice and home affairs.
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Připravuje Markéta Frýbová