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The European Union's historic expansion in May 2004 took eight new Central and East European members into its fold. But what has the process Einitially started in the early 1990s following the fall of the Berlin Wall Ebrought to the former communist countries in the Soviet bloc?
And two years after the expansion, many EU countries appear to be gripped with "enlargement fatigue." Will it be a temporary phenomena or will it affect the region's long-term future?
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