European Commissioner For Enlargement And European Neighbourhood Policy
The Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy is the member of the European Commission in charge of overseeing the accession process of prospective new member states and relations with those bordering the European Union (EU). The present Commissioner, as of February 2010, is Štefan Füle.
Currently there are six candidate countries and three who have either applied for membership or are preparing via the Stabilisation and Association Process countries, with Croatia acceding to full membership for July 2013. Most of them are located in the western Balkans except Iceland and Turkey. Neighbourhood Policy is directed towards those members along the EU's eastern border and on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea.
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