BRUSSELS - With just six months to go before its biggest-ever expansion, the 15-member European Union is all set for the historic "big bang" - not least because it has been working as an enlarged bloc for some time.The European Commission published this week its latest batch of annual reports on the 10 mostly ex-communist states that will join the 46-year-old bloc next May. But the reports, while noting the few remaining delays and a couple of "serious" problems, cannot at this stage hamper the enlargement, which will boost the EU's population to some 450 million.One recurring theme in th...
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