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Moscow. (RIA Novosti political correspondent...
in 2004. Since then and through 2007, the number of EU members increased from 15 to 27. The biggest wave of EU expansion included Hungary, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Estonia, that is, almost the entire communist bloc. Two former people’s democracies -- Bulgaria and Romania -- also joined the EU in 2007.The new members were eager to partake of European prosperity. They brought a lot of manpower but failed to understand the Western way of life in the EU, and displayed too much arrogance using the opportunity to vote and block any decision inside the EU. The new members received much more from Europe than they gave it, excluding actual territory. They had a strange interpretation of the correlation of their rights and duties. They demanded a political voice, which did not correspond in any way to their economic, financial, demographic or territorial weight, not to mention their service record.