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5/1     10 new countries join the EU.  8 are former Soviet states.
        http://sg.news.yahoo.com/040430/1/3jwxl.html
        I know the public face is that the EU will turn all the European
        countries into a first world super power but I see it differently.
        I see it as merely staving off the inevitable collapse of the western
        European powers.  If the US economy looked like any of the major
        European economies, we'd already have voted all the incumbents from
        both parties out of office.  For example, Germany has about 10.5%
        unemployment right now.  We have about half that.  And Israel, which
        has always had a weak economy and especially so since the most recent
        war, has an unemployment rate just slightly worse than Germany at
        about 11%.  France has allowed approx. 6 million Arabs into their
        country of 25 million people yet has made no effort to integrate these
        people into society and continues to allow more.  Britain is following
        the same path.  Germany's retirement system is no longer sustainable.
        France is almost in the same position as Germany.  And these are the
        three strongest and best run countries in Europe.  It's all downhill
        from there.  I predict economic collapse leading to anarchy in most of
        Europe by 2025, at the latest, if current economic and social trends
        continue.
        \_ Maybe they ll join up with Russia to form the Socialist Republics
           of Eurasia, and try to stave off the inevitable by whoring out
           natural resources for a few years.
        \_ Only three were former soviet states.
        \_ the only reason the us unemployment is so low is we artifically
           lower the numbers by not counting people who have been unemployed
           for over 6 months, nor do we count people who quit their jobs and
           can't find another one, or contracters who can't find contracts.
        \_ Between 20 and 40 % of children in France
           under 10 are Muslim.  The Islamicists breed like rabbits.
        \_ population of france is 59 million.  unemployment in
           germany is high because it is high in the former east
           germany.  you are a moron.
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At the top of a mountain on the borders of Austria, Italy and Slovenia, top officials met for a ceremony to mark the European Union enlargement due to take place at the stroke of midnight Friday. In Prague, a Polish couple explained why they had come to an EU fair on historic Na Prikope street in the baroque splendor of the Czech capital, where national as well as the characteristic blue EU flags were flying at stands for each of the 25 EU states -- the 15 present members, plus the 10 soon to join the EU family. The Czech Republic is one of the 10 nations joining the EU along with Cyprus, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia. My ship has come to port," Walesa was quoted as saying in the Zycie Warszawy newspaper. There will be fireworks at midnight Friday in Prague and on Saturday Spidla will meet his German and Polish counterparts for ceremonies at Zittau, the German town where the frontiers of the Czech Republic, Germany and Poland meet. Hungary kicked off celebrations with the tolling of a flower-shaped bell. Our integration can be a historic turning point," Prime Minister Peter Medgyessy said at the ceremony in Budapest's historic castle district. Medgyessy was to turn over an eight-metre (25-foot) hourglass at midnight Friday to mark Hungary's accession. An exhibition of hundreds of objects that Budapest residents say they will not take with them into the new EU era was on view at a downtown bus station. The first babies born in the Baltic state of Lithuania after it joins will become stars in an 85-year-long TV documentary charting their lives, Arunas Matelis, the head of the project, said. And the people of Lithuania are being called on to switch on all their lights and start fires across the country late on Friday in a bid to become the brightest country to join the EU. A US satellite will be standing by to photograph the event from space. European Commission chief Romano Prodi was at midnight Friday to attend a ceremony in the Italian town of Gorizia/Nova Gorica, which was divided during World War II and straddles the former Iron Curtain border with Slovenia. All information displayed in this section (dispatches, photographs, logos) are protected by intellectual property rights owned by Agence France-Presse. As a consequence you may not copy, reproduce, modify, transmit, publish, display or in any way commercially exploit any of the contents of this section without the prior written consent of Agence France-Presses.