As for changing attitudes …. this weekend Duna TV devoted much of its programming to the Treaty of Trianon and its injustice. I believe Duna is widely available in Romania, Doug What many in Hungary call Erdelyi was, up until Trianon, part of Hungary for 1000 years - if one is to believe Duna and what Hungarians are taught at school on this issue. EU enlargement will solve the problem but it remains a fractious issue.

Can’t have both, at least with respect to Turkey and eventually Ukraine. In fact a rollback in services is pretty much inevitable.

This is, unfortunately, probably the case. But note that a lot depends on the kind of outcome we get at the summit. Britain is comitted to deregulation and enlargement. This has been the view since the days of Ms Thatcher.

Furthermore, the EU ruling part of a member’s territory as a force of occupation is impossible. We’d have to first solve the Kosovo problem. And probably it is not realistic to think you can solve Kosovo without touching Bosnia.

http://www.bertelsmann-transformation-index.de/

the relation to Southeastern Europe as, for example here

http://www.cap-lmu.de/publikationen/2005/zagreb.php

the comparative disadvantages of sticking with Nice are here

http://www.cap-lmu.de/publikationen/2004/spotlight_nizza_abgrund.php

It’s good to see, though, that I’ve struck a nerve by pointing out that the current EU members have obligations to future members.

The Observer has a long piece on the history of the tape.

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1499516,00.html

It seems it was given to the Serbian authorities on May 25, but they didn’t act until someone forwarded to the International War Crimes Tribunal the following week. Clearly Sunday’s vote may not be far from people’s minds. It would not be surprising if people who have been pussyfooting around for years suddenly start to act. This was certainly the hope which Carla del Ponti seemed to express when she ‘thanked’ the Serbian authorities for what they are now doing.

So, yes, ironically, the French vote last Sunday, which was not of course about enlargement as such, can bring tremendous pressure in some places for people to clean up their act.

In this context don’t miss this action by enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn:

http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-140104-16&type=News

“In the wake of the two ‘no’ votes in France and the Netherlands, doubts have emerged Europe-wide about the future of the enlargement process. Talking to reporters on 2 June, Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn said that “rumours of the death of EU enlargement policy are evidently exaggerated”, and declared that the process is bound to continue “by underlining the need to stick to the criteria of accession to the last letter and better communicating to our citizens the overall balance sheet of enlargement”.

“Rehn has also confirmed that the Commission will send formal warnings to candidates Bulgaria and Romania as these countries are lagging behind in implementing the required judicial reforms”.

“In Romania, the main issues are corruption and border controls, the enforcement of state aid controls, and the implementation of environmental laws. In Bulgaria, the concerns centre around judicial reforms, agriculture, environment, intellectual property rights and the free movement of services.”

I was going to post on this last week, but as you have probably noticed, I got caught up in other matters.

And all this on the heels of the constitutional trouncing. Is FFOE ever going to grow up?