Det er snart 12 år siden, Berlinmuren faldt, og flere europæere lovede, at de lande, som endelig kastede kommunismens åg af sig, hurtigt ville kunne opnå medlemskab.
It will soon be twelve years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and many Europeans promised that those countries which had finally thrown off the yoke of communism would quickly be able to obtain membership of the EU.