Demographically and strategically, Poland is by far the most important of the EU s new members.

In Eastern Europe, most new EU members banking sectors are owned by banks based elsewhere in the EU.

Many of the EU s newest members continue to grapple with questions of geopolitical trust.

The EU will spend over 30billion euros integrating its new members into the Union.

The biggest remaining hurdle concerns the political will among today's EU members to set the actual dates for enlargement.

But the EU s new member countries have no access to any safety net.

Among the EU s new members, English is rapidly replacing Russian as the most widely used foreign language.

Several new members have adopted reciprocal restrictions.

There are even some soldiers in the incoming class, too.

Indeed, since the US intervention in Iraq, many West Europeans see the EU's new members from Europe's East as something of a bloc.

To be sure, the EU's potential to induce economic dynamism, best seen in Ireland and Greece, attracts new members.

Making the Union s newest members carry a disproportionate share of the burden of reducing the EU s total amount of pollution is both unjust and foolish.

Latvia and other new EU members have little recourse but to challenge the European Commission in court.

EU members have many interests in common.

The coming accession of ten new members to the EU would be made much simpler were Europe to find its own equally flexible system.

The EU has been unable so far to transform its institutions and procedures in order to cope with the new members.

The new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe, in particular, have a big stake in how the issue plays out.

As to Romania, EU members are divided.

In principle, the Commission ought to be slimmed down after enlargement, with fewer Commissioners than member states.

This is a clear disadvantage for airlines from the new EU members, as the number of passengers they carry increased sharply only after 2004, when these countries joined the EU.

Of course, the economic prosperity that European unification has delivered undoubtedly lures new members, but the EU's attraction extends far beyond pocketbook issues.

Integrating the ten new member countries that joined the EU on May 1 will demand tremendous effort on the part of the Union, as well as a fair division of the burdens.

Worried about an invasion of migrant workers from the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe, the old EU members have erected high barriers in order to prevent the flow.

Consider Germany, which in 2006 exported capital worth 108 billion, only 25 billion of which was for direct investments, whereas net domestic investment in all sectors combined was only 75 billion. Part of this capital export flowed to the new EU members in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed, relative to their size, gigantic capital imports.

Serious cuts were also made to other new EU members quotas, prompting Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, as well as Latvia, to launch legal challenges.

Part of this capital export flowed to the new EU members in Eastern Europe, which enjoyed, relative to their size, gigantic capital imports.

The addition of new EU members implies that more internal differences will occur, which means that fewer centralized policies are justified.

The idea being passed on through proselytizing, instead of through the gene line.

All EU countries, including the new members, should be encouraged to adapt social assistance schemes (which also exist in the new member states) so as to meet some basic income requirements.

The process of enlargement will either be delayed or stopped completely, because the EU can no longer admit new members on the basis of the Nice constitution.

While the people inside have often worried that newcomers would take away their jobs and subsidies, they usually acquiesced in the end.

Admission of new members will repeat the positive experience of the last enlargement round.

Traditionally, the Netherlands has thought of itself as the smallest of the EU s large member states.

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None of the new EU member states have concrete plans or financing mechanisms to develop networks of community based alternatives on a national scale.

Indeed, intra EU trade today accounts for nearly two thirds of EU member states total trade.

Welcoming the Dominican Republic and Thailand to membership in the Committee on Information,

Some French see the EU as a community where national interests inexorably converge.

Instead, it forces companies to police hate speech or face astronomical fines.

The 12 new member states that joined the EU in 2004 and 2007 committed themselves to its adoption, but with no set date.

The new members could, of course, benefit from investment pouring in from current EU countries. After all, for many West European companies the existence of a common economic area and, eventually, an enlarged monetary union will make it easy to relocate their operations to those parts of Europe with lower costs but identical legal standards.

The new members could, of course, benefit from investment pouring in from current EU countries.

The EU s member governments name the members of the European Commission, and the Parliament lacks an explicit right to veto them.

Financial integration could catapult financial development for new member countries, including through the advent of new financial instruments and services.

A specter is haunting the European Union s new members in Central Europe the specter of populist nationalism.