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The Copenhagen Council of the European Union (EU) sealed in December 2002 the ’reunification of Europe’ by declaring the admission of ten new member states on 1 May 2004, right before the
June elections of the European Parliament (CEU 2002, 8). It is a political act, with an extraordinary symbolic value, involving most of the countries belonging to the former Soviet bloc. …”
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