{"id":4993,"date":"2004-05-01T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-01T09:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=4993"},"modified":"2004-05-01T10:59:10","modified_gmt":"2004-05-01T09:59:10","slug":"a-less-exclusive-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/05\/01\/a-less-exclusive-club\/","title":{"rendered":"A less exclusive club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia &#8211; welcome to the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Worth reading:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/3673227.stm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"BBC News\">EU becomes &quot;normal&quot;<\/a> &#8211; Paul Reynolds, BBC<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftenposten.no\/english\/local\/article784380.ece\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Aftenposten\">Norway braced for EU expansion<\/a> &#8211; Aftenposten<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbj.hu\/user\/article.asp?ArticleID=192178\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Budapest Business Journal\">Advice for a successful marriage<\/a> &#8211; Budapest Business Journal<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faz.com\/IN\/INtemplates\/eFAZ\/docmain.asp?rub={B1311FCC-FBFB-11D2-B228-00105A9CAF88}&amp;doc={DB531BB3-30E5-42A0-9B54-CAE08F2F9377}\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"FAZ\">Mixed feelings<\/a> &#8211; Anke Bryson, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.spb.ru\/archive\/times\/965\/news\/n_12372.htm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"St Petersburg Times\">Impact of expansion on Russian-EU trade &quot;cut by half by new deal&quot;<\/a> &#8211; St Petersburg Times<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/europe\/story.jsp?story=517022\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Independent\">Fireworks fail to fizz as expansion fatigue takes a heavy toll<\/a> &#8211; John Lichfield, Independent<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/articles\/2004\/04\/30\/1083224588713.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SMH\">Europe&#8217;s biggest gamble<\/a> &#8211; Peter Fray, Sydney Morning Herald<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml?xml=\/news\/2004\/05\/01\/weu201.xml\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Telegraph - registration required\">Thatcher&#8217;s EU vision becomes reality<\/a> &#8211; Anton La Guardia, Telegraph<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/01\/international\/europe\/01EURO.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"NYT - registration required\">New &quot;Europeans&quot; struggle to define that title<\/a> &#8211; Sarah Lyall, New York Times<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia &#8211; welcome to the EU. Worth reading: EU becomes &quot;normal&quot; &#8211; Paul Reynolds, BBC Norway braced for EU expansion &#8211; Aftenposten Advice for a successful marriage &#8211; Budapest Business Journal Mixed feelings &#8211; Anke Bryson, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Impact of expansion on Russian-EU trade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}