Meanwhile, thanks largely to the economic shock of 2008-09, population decline is actually accelerating in most of Eastern Europe, as many people head to the old EU countries in search of more promising opportunities.
Poland, meanwhile, has shown that newcomers to the EU can be just as obstructive as the old guard.
Bulgaria had to close four of its old reactors at Kozloduy as a precondition for its 2007 EU membership.
However, as the trading day progressed Monday, those same old EU worries started to creep back into the market place.
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This is a big, positive step for the EU in its three-year-old sovereign debt crisis.
The argument that rejection from the EU sent Turkey towards Islamism is an old one in foreign policy circles.
He also urges ministers to resist any attempts by power generators to keep open old coal stations which are due to close under an EU directive on air pollution.
But a sharing of the debt burden requires near revolution in the way the EU is governed, according to a trio of the grand old men of Europe.
EU's transport commissioner but too old-Labour for Tony Blair's taste.
EU's borders, and also imported much-needed economic dynamism into the old continent.
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