LONDON: The glow of optimism at the European Union's Helsinki summit last month, when EU leaders decided to extend membership negotiations to all ten candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe, plus Malta and Cyprus, is fading fast. It has now become crystal clear that enlargement is going to be a very difficult process: difficult to negotiate, and just as difficult, perhaps, to sell to the voters.
LONDON: The glow of optimism at the European Union's Helsinki summit last month, when EU leaders decided to extend membership negotiations to all ten candidate countries from Central and Eastern Europe, plus Malta and Cyprus, is fading fast. It has now become crystal clear that enlargement is going to be a very difficult process: difficult to negotiate, and just as difficult, perhaps, to sell to the voters.