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Article: EU/HUNGARY: MORE APPLAUSE FOR THE EU'S LEADING CANDIDATE.
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- Telecomworldwire
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- September 20, 2000
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But add to it he did. Mr Martonyi said the EU message on accession was "very encouraging", and that he was "now much more optimistic than a few months ago". The "different messages" that Hungary had received after the start of the French Presidency of the EU now seemed to have coalesced, he suggested, into a firmer EU determination to re-launch the accession process. What he expected now, and what Hungary was determined to prepare for, was an intensification of negotiations with a new more substantive quality, he said.Reasons for optimism.The joint statement issued after the meeting was also full of praise. Hungary "continues to fulfil the Copenhagen political criteria". ...