Hungarian foreign minister: EU has taken on too much

By agreeing to take on ten new member states at once, the EU has given itself too big a task, according to Hungarian foreign minister Laszlo Kovacs.

Speaking to the German Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Hungarian minister, whose country will be among those joining on 1 May, said that he always felt that "enlargement should be a step by step process".

Mr Kovacs called the original decision in 1999 to negotiate with 1...