ATHENSLess than 12 years after gaining independence, the three Baltic nations on April 16 in Athens signed treaties to join the European Union in a landmark expansion campaign that in total will bring 10 new countries and 75 million people into the economic alliance. History hung heavy in the air as the leaders of the EU's 25 current and soon-to-be member states met in the shadow of the Acropolis in Athens, the birthplace of democracy, to sign the 5,000-page accession treaty."It is only today that the Berlin Wall has truly fallen," Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende said, 14 years af...
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