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The road to for membership for Bulgaria and Romania has been long, difficult and at times uncertain. Successive governments have struggled to introduce political and economic reforms, to make enough progress in meeting the European Union's accession criteria for Brussels to consider them fit to join. Phinnemore talks about the approval of Bulgaria and Romania to join the EU and the anxieties for both existing and prospective members of the Union.
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Two More for the Club
THE ROAD TO MEMBERSHIP FOR BULGARIA and Romania has been long, difficult and at times uncertain. Successive governments have struggled to introduce political and economic reforms, to make enough progress in meeting the European Union's accession criteria for Brussels to consider them fit to join. It was no surprise that they were not included in the EU's 'big bang' enlargement of May 2004. In fact, neither had by then completed accession negotiations, even ...
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