Luxembourg group

The Luxembourg group sent copies of the report to prominent social researchers last week and will make it more broadly available in the coming days.

By the end of the Portuguese presidency, all 29 chapters will be on the negotiating table for the Luxembourg group of countries.

To this end I must stress that we inherited 16 chapters from the Luxembourg group. We have closed 10 and opened 6.

During this past year, several of the states in the Helsinki group have already in effect caught up with those in the earlier Luxembourg group.

Contacto ('Contact') is a Portuguese language weekly newspaper in Luxembourg, published by the Saint-Paul Luxembourg group.

I know that for the Luxembourg group of countries, with which negotiations started in March 1998, between 10 and 15 out of a total of 31 negotiating chapters have been provisionally completed.

We have also made decisive progress with the previous group, the Luxembourg Group, as all the chapters, with the obvious exception of the 'Institutions' chapter, were already open with this group.

Subject: Eastward enlargement: transitional arrangements regarding the free movement of services Negotiations with the first group of applicant states (the 'Luxembourg group' ) on the free movement of services have reached a provisional conclusion.