As the Taoiseach made clear in his statement to the House on 28 September, the meeting of EU Heads of State or Government which took place in Majorca on 22 and 23 September was an informal meeting. It was not a meeting of the European Council and Foreign Ministers were not present.
No specific decisions were taken or conclusions adopted at Majorca.
In his statement to the House on 28 September the Taoiseach also set out, against the background of the Majorca meeting, the general Irish approach to future enlargement and made it clear that the timescale foreseen by the European Council meetings in Corfu and Essen with regard to enlargement negotiations remains unaltered. In this regard the Deputy will recall that the Corfu and Essen European Council conclusions refer to the need to create the institutional conditions for ensuring the proper functioning of the Union at the 1996 Intergovernmental Conference, which for that reason must take place before accession negotiations begin.