European Union Expands Into 10 New Countries
Submitted by Templar Titan on Sat, 05/01/2004 - 13:39.
| Saturday May 1, 12:39 AM Yahoo! News Prime ministers gathered on a mountaintop in Slovenia and a bell tolled in Budapest as 10 countries, eight from the former Soviet bloc, celebrated before joining the EU and definitively ending Europe's Cold War east-west division. 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. "Life has offered me the chance to stand for the first and the last time on a border that tomorrow will be no more," said Slovenia's Prime Minister Anton Rop. |
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