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EU Summit Opens in Spanish City of Seville

The summit meeting of the EuropeanUnion (EU) opened in Seville on Friday, with illegal immigration and enlargement process high on the agenda of the two-day event.


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The summit meeting of the EuropeanUnion (EU) opened in Seville on Friday, with illegal immigration and enlargement process high on the agenda of the two-day event.

The meeting, attended by leaders of all 15 member states and the European Commission, is chaired by Spanish Prime Minister JoseMaria Aznar.

The issue of illegal immigration has been in the limelight over the past weeks. European leaders are expected to come up with a common action plan to combat illegal immigration and to cooperate on this issue.

EU's enlargement, scheduled to take in up to 10 new members by 2004, is on the agenda because most of candidate countries will have finished their accession negotiations by the end of the year.

Meanwhile, the new challenges facing the enlarged EU will also top the agenda. The EU institutions should be reformed to adapt themselves to the new conditions after enlargement.

European Commission President Romano Prodi proposed that one commissioner should represent each member state in the reformed executive body of the EU, ruling out the possibility that major powers in the bloc take up most of the key seats in decision making body.

At the meeting, the EU leaders will also focus on issues like economic reforms, foreign and security policies, as well as hot international issues like the situation in Kashmir, Afghanistan and the peace process in the Middle East.


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