This should be a happy time for the European Union. The great coalition of 25 nation states has just signed the treaty that will spread its bounds wider still and wider.
The accession of Bulgaria and Romania, signed this week amid modest celebration in rainy Luxembourg, will stretch the Union from the Atlantic to the Black Sea. Barring substantial backsliding in their European commitments the two states will join on 1 January 2007, bringing another 33 million citizens into the Union a...
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