Press Release: Commission encourages candidate countries in macroeconomic stabilisation and financial sector reform effort

In a report the European Commission says: Candidate countries are succeeding in achieving macroeconomic stabilisation and are making great strides in advancing structural reforms, including in the financial sector. Their capacity to cope with potential future macroeconomic and financial sector challenges has considerably improved. Yet, this capacity must be continuously reinforced and adapted as economic development creates new challenges for macro-economic policies and as financial sectors, at an early stage of development, mature.