The Italian Parliament's Chamber of Deputies has ratified Croatia's European Union Accession Treaty, the ANSA news agency said on Wednesday evening and the Croatian Foreign Ministry confirmed the news.
The ratification was supported by 483 deputies, while two were against. The ratification still has to be approved by the Senate.
We hope to be among the first countries to ratify this treaty, with Serbia's EU accession also a priority, ANSA quoted Italian Foreign Ministry Under Secretary Marta Dassu as saying.
Croatian Ambassador Tomislav Vidosevic met with the Speaker of the Chamber of Deputies, Gianfranco Fini, to thank him for the ratification, the Croatian Foreign Ministry said, adding that the chairman of the Italian-Croatian friendship group in the Italian parliament, Aldo di Viaggio, was also in attendance.
The Bulgarian parliament is expected to be the next to ratify Croatia's Accession Treaty. It was ratified by the Slovakian parliament on February 1 and by the Hungarian parliament on February 13.
