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| Brake on E.U. Enlargement Dims Hope for the Balkans |
| 2009-05-24 |
| Voices have been raised against the anti-enlargement bandwagon. Enlargement Commissioner Rehn recently exhorted the European Parliament not to "make enlargement the scapegoat of economic recession." Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, who in the past has played an active role in the Balkan crises, has also argued that the Western Balkan countries should "not be punished" in order to please the voters in some countries. But given member states' behavior, that now looks increasingly like empty talk. |
| Posted by:3dc |
| #4 Which sounds like it would really hurt. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-05-24 21:23 |
| #3 I get a lot of spam about enlargement, except they spell it "enarglement". |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2009-05-24 21:22 |
| #2 Last I heard the EU was on shaky ground. Maybe they should wait a bit and work on that EU military, giving up the extra seats in the Security Council and General Assembly and other bits of work they've forgotten. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2009-05-24 17:07 |
| #1 I hear Putin's accepting applications for membership. He will even fill out the paperwork for you. |
| Posted by: ed 2009-05-24 13:59 |