Hungary claims Poland's pace is delaying collective admission chances

Poland's slow negotiation pace is blocking EU enlargement according to Janos Martonyi, Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs. "We don't ask anyone to wait for us and we won't wait for anyone" said Martonyi before a visit to European capitals. "Hungary and other countries are still afraid that they will have to wait for other candidates to catch up," explains Michael Lake, head of EU representation in Budapest. In terms of admission issues completed, Poland ranks last in its candidate group, with only 11 negotiation sectors closed. However, according to Jan Kulakowski, the main polish negotiator, it is not the statistics but the number of difficult issues solved that counts in the process. According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the slow pace of Polish adaption to EU legal requirements is the major concern for other candidate counitries(Gazeta Wyborcza,Oct. 9, page 30)