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The New Old Boys' Club.(European Union)
Eurocrats love to call the European Union a "family." The reality? Everybody knows it's a club. Like any elitist fraternity, it defines itself as much by who's out as who's in.
Such standards were tough for the "outs" when there were only 15 members and 13 pledges. But it will soon become an even bigger source of resentment. The most recent European Commission update on aspirants suggests 10 will be inducted as early as 2004. The reason for the rush: so these privileged many can take part in elections for the European Parliament the same year. The Union will embrace "an internal market of 500 million consumers," according to the EU report. It will stretch from Blarney to Bialystock, from Lapland to Limassol in the Greek- speaking part of Cyprus. Which all sounds pretty good--unless you're one of the three remaining wannabes who are starting to look like "never-wases": Bulgaria, Romania and especially Turkey.
So, how are the lucky ones decided? To begin with, there's a checklist of more than 30 points that are supposed to establish who's in good odor and who's not. Issues range from free ...
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