16 December 2002 The leaders of Eastern Europe were all smiles as they closed EU membership talks in Copenhagen last week, but the deal isn’t done yet.It took a decade of reforms, years of talks, and a last-minute round of fierce haggling, but eight post-communist countries have finally managed to cut a membership deal with the European Union. At the […]

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