Europe’s enlargement problem John Palmer

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"Europe’s enlargement problem
John Palmer
23 - 5 - 2006
The European Union needs a fresh wind to clear its enlargement malaise, says John Palmer.
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There is little doubt that the dynamic which drove the enlargement of the European Union in the decade after the fall of the Berlin wall is weakening. The decision on 16 May 2006 by the European Commission to delay until the autumn a final judgment on whether Bulgaria and Romania will be ready to join the EU in May 2007 is another sign that the union's enthusiasm for adding new member-states to the existing twenty-five has largely disappeared."