Europeans Favor Admitting Romania and Bulgaria, Then Retooling
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Reflecting Âexpansion fatigue,Â the bloc will warn that enlargement must halt until the organization makes needed structural changes.
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Some of America's staunchest allies &#151; the former communist countries of "New Europe" &#151; are gaining influence in the European Union, and experts say their growing voice could mean cozier trans-Atlantic ties.
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Romania and Bulgaria will be ready to join the EU on schedule in 2007, according to a European Commission report on their progress.
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ORADEA, Romania Like it or not, Frenc Alafi could become a European Union passport holder sooner than he had expected. The 43-year-old tailor from this city situated just inside Romania&#39;s Hungarian border
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EU entry seems destined to change Romania's small-scale farming methods - and its landscape.
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BRUSSELS -- The European Union gave the final green light yesterday to the second wave of its eastern enlargement, inviting Bulgaria and Romania to join the bloc in 2007 and agreeing to open entry talks with Croatia next March.
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Reform-minded figures from some of Europe's smaller, nimbler economies won key posts in the European Union's executive branch, part of a drive by the incoming president to prioritize growth across the continent.
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Europe is in a serious tug of war situation. On one side America wants it in its age-old traditional mode of preserving Western Union of Nations through NATO.
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Brussels has said the EU&#39;s newest members should adopt the euro in one step, in contrast to the currency&#39;s original phased introduction.
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Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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BUCHAREST  - Romanians rang the end of an era as they voted for a president to succeed Ion Iliescu and lead them into the European Union, hoping the change will also spell an end to rampant poverty and graft.
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The European Commission was set to confirm that Romania and Bulgaria are on track to join the European Union in 2007, although Croatia will have to wait, according to leaked documents.
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The Christian Science Monitor - For more than a decade far-right parties in Europe have been lost in regional and ideological squabbles, some of them dating to the 1930s. But with the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union last month, a move at first opposed by the far-right, the ultranationalists suddenly found enough fellow travelers to formalize a coalition.
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European Union leaders seeking to reassure voters about plans to enlarge the bloc remained far from united on Friday about the future shape of the union, set to grow to 27 members when Bulgaria and Romania join ...Comment
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SOFIA, Bulgaria, Dec. 18 Britain, the Netherlands and Spain plan restrictions on immigrant workers from Bulgaria and Romania once the two states join the European Union Jan.Comment
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The prospect of future EU membership became clearer for four countries last week. At a two-day summit in Brussels, EU leaders gave the green light for the signing of entry treaties with Bulgaria and Romania
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European Union leaders seeking to reassure voters about the bloc's expansion ended a summit on Friday far from united about the future shape of the union, set to grow to 27 members when Bulgaria and Romania join on January 1.