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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 25 October 1999
HUNGARY'S EARLY EU ACCESSION HOPES DASHED. "Accession talks
with Hungary cannot be completed in 2001," Franz Fischler,
a member of the European Commission responsible for
agriculture, told the 24 October "Nepszabadsag." The
Austrian EU commissioner said the EU will have to carry out
its own reforms before it wraps up admission talks with the
best-prepared candidates in 2002. MSZ
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RFE/RL NEWSLINE 26 October 1999
'FAST-TRACK' COUNTRIES' FINANCE MINISTERS MEET IN BUDAPEST.
The finance ministers of the five countries that had been
included in the fast-track group for accession to the EU on
25 October agreed in Budapest to set up working groups that
would coordinate public finance reforms in their countries.
Jarai Zsigmond of Hungary, Pavel Mertlik of the Czech
Republic, Leszek Balcerowicz of Poland, Siim Kallas of
Estonia, and Mitja Gaspari of Slovenia also agreed that
special attention should be paid to the development and
harmonization of tax systems in their countries, as well as
to bringing currency exchange systems into line with EU
practices. MSZ
FORMER HUNGARIAN PRIME MINISTER DIES. Andras Hegedues died on
23 October at the age of 76. In 1956, Hegedues had signed a
request asking for Soviet troops to intervene during the
Hungarian uprising. Later, he became a leading critic of the
Hungarian regime, and, in 1968, spoke out against the Soviet-
led invasion of Czechoslovakia. VG
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