Bulgaria, Romania Join EU "Together"

7 December 2004, Tuesday.

Bulgaria and Romania will sign their EU accession treaties by the end of Luxembourg's Presidency of the European Union.

Luxembourg's Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn spoke to local Darik radio and predicted that both Sofia and Bucharest will join the bloc of 25 together on January 1, 2007. He also said that Bucharest is aware that it has to speed up its work on the pre-accession negotiations.

Just a day earlier Jean Asselborn said that the signing of Bulgaria and Romania's accession treaties will be among the priorities of the Luxembourg EU Presidency in the first half of 2005.

The EU Presidency will rotate to Luxembourg on January 1, 2005.