01 May 2004

EU expansion

Europe is now a bigger place, as 10 new members take their place in a 25-member European Union.



Eight of these are former communist countries. Two island nations, Cyprus and Malta, complete the number of entrants. Cyprus enters under a cloud, due to the failure to unify the island nation in advance of EU membership. Will there be another chance at a settlement of the 30-year-old Cyprus issue? Perhaps not.

No comments:

Post a Comment