It's official. Hungary, which has always looked set to be in the first wave of central and eastern European countries to join the European Union, has been placed in the very front rank of accession countries. The European Commission report on candidate countries, due to be endorsed at the Helsinki summit on December 10 and 11, named Hungary as the country likely to join the EU first, alongside Poland, and ahead of the Czech Republic and Slovenia....more

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