The European Commission has announced that Romania and Bulgaria will be admitted to the European Union in January 2007, but under some conditions. Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said both countries made many progresses to join the union.
Barroso: 'I would like to congratulate the peoples and authorities of Bulgaria and Romania for all their efforts to meet the conditions for joining [the EU]' Jose Manuel Barroso, the President of the European Commission said today 26 September 2006 in the plenary of the European Parliament'.
Source: The Romanian Business Newsletter
