HELSINKI – While top government officials flashed their broadest smiles and spoke of milestone moments following official European Union invitations, across town a few dozen protesters warned of a new sort of imperialism they are sure will follow EU membership.When the dozen mostly former communist countries now promised EU accession have joined, the EU will become the largest trading block in the world with 27 countries and half a billion people.In the process, say critics, countries whose culture was stomped under Soviet rule will suffer a new era of autocracy in the name of a homogenous ...
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