But the country still "does not yet fully meet" the Union's political criteria, the commission said.

To qualify for the program, Guatemala had to meet a series of political and economic criteria.

This is why political criteria are accorded such high importance.

There is work to be done, however, not least regarding the political and economic criteria, where difficulties remain.

This is why the political criteria are now central in our report.

While the country met the political criteria, there is still much work to be done.

Universal access to quality public services must be the basic political criterion.

It is clear that continuing the work on the political criteria remains extremely important.

So it is fundamental that negotiations should start with all those countries which respect the political and democratic criteria.

And what arrogance there is in the political criteria imposed on these countries.