Reding said this to reporters after the European Commission at its regular weekly session discussed the current state of Croatia's EU entry talks.

Asked if other European commissioners shared her opinion, Reding said that she could not speak about that, as that was the job of Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele, who will inform the Committee of Permanent Representatives in the European Union (COREPER) on the state of Croatia's membership negotiations with the bloc, and that she could not foresee the outcome, namely what the Commission's proposal concerning Croatia's readiness to wrap up the entry talks would be.

Fuele was invited to attend that meeting as part of preparations for a debate of EU foreign ministers who are scheduled to meet on Monday for a regular monthly meeting. the ministers are expected to discuss Croatia during a working dinner.

Reding said that Commissioner Fuele will inform the EU council of preliminary findings of the Commission and present the Commission's final proposal on Croatia's readiness to close its entry talks with the bloc. I hope this will happen soon, she said.

Reding said she visited Croatia on several occasions to exert pressure to carry out reforms and that now she informed her colleagues of the results of that pressure, adding that she was impressed with what had been done in Croatia so far.