The European Commission will do all it can to help Croatia complete European Union accession negotiations this year, Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele said in an interview with German news agency DPA on Friday.
The former Czech diplomat said it would be "not only unwise, but impossible" to give a precise date for Croatia's EU accession, but confirmed the Commission would do "everything to make it possible" to help Zagreb achieve its own target of completing accession talks by 2010.
Fuele said he was confident that Slovenia would ratify a border dispute agreement with Croatia despite a planned referendum against it.
