The US has welcomed the EU's decision to expand to include Bulgaria and Romania from January and urged the bloc not to stop there but to continue and make good on promises to Balkan states and Turkey.
State department spokesperson Sean McCormack called the green light for Sofia and Bucharest "welcome news for those two countries as well as the EU."
He went on to say that "the EU is wrestling with these issues of expansion and at what pace to take the talks that they have ongoing w...
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