Pusic attends Visegrad Group ministerial conference

Croatian Foreign and European Affairs Minister Vesna Pusic participated in a conference of foreign ministers of the Visegrad Group, the Western Balkans, Bulgaria, Greece and Rumania in Warsaw on Thursday and exchanged views with her counterparts on Europe's fatigue from enlargement and problems in the European Union, the Croatian foreign ministry reported.

The conference's host Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski said that there was more and more talk about enlargement fatigue and diminishing attractiveness of the EU faced with its own problems.

European Commission Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said that the new accession model would mean that the most difficult chapters (23 & 24) would be dealt with first and that this would reform aspirants for the better.

The foreign ministers of countries in Croatia's neighbourhood spoke about the difficulties their countries were faced with. Ms. Pusic said that the Croatia was offering its know-how to countries in the region.

Poland assumed the one-year-long chairmanship of the Visegrad Four in July. (Hina)