Slovenian PM Janez Jansa expressed his scepticism towards a Wednesday's European Parliament proposal to establish a new category of states in the EU accession process, as he gave an interview for Germany's daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), published on Thursday.
A new category - which would be less than full-time membership, but would at the same time offer closer cooperation between these countries and the EU than the current neighbourhood policy - would not be understood as a serious basis for accession talks, according to Jansa.
The chairman of the European Parliament's foreign affairs committee, Germany's Elmar Brok said that the EU needs something between full membership and neighbourhood policy, some kind of a common economic area that the EU could use as a starting point.
Jansa also told the daily that the EU should, prior to continuing with enlargement, first resolve its institutional crisis, a topic that might well have to be dealt with also by Slovenia during its 2008 stint as EU chair.
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