Tankegangen om, at lande som Tjekkiet, Polen og Ungarn er de anmodende lande og derfor skal opfylde alle de krav, der formuleres af EU, tilgodeser ikke i tilstrækkelig grad idéen om ligeværdighed mellem ansøgerlandene og landene i Den Europæiske Union.
The reasoning that countries such as the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary are the supplicants, and should therefore meet all the requirements formulated by the European Union, does not do enough justice to the position of equality between these new accession states and the European Union countries.