There is no clear answer to the question of how far east Europe stretches. But Romania and Bulgaria are European by any definition. So this week's news that these two Balkan countries are to join the European Union next January ought to be welcomed. Yet it was greeted with dismay in some European capitals-and with a warning by the president of the European Commission, no less, that the club cannot take in more members without reforming its institutions. This is code for demands to revive some or all of the ill-fated eu constitution that was rejected last year by French and Dutch voters.
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