Candidates see clouds in EU future

Jan 23, 2003
Pierre Glachant

BRUSSELSMany of the 10 countries slated to join the European Union next year fear that the convention charting the EU's future could spell a new kind of subjugation, so soon after they won their freedom from Soviet rule.They worry that just over a decade after throwing off Moscow's yoke, the glittering hope of EU membership could result in the smothering embrace of Brussels and a stripped-down sovereignty.Few object to the convention's aim of coming up with a new vision for the EU, although cert ...

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