链男4经降贸多大是 高级商务英语阅读 was taking its duties."It would be premature to reveal the contents of the report,but I can say that we are collecting analyses,facts and evidence at every level.We can thus ensure that our studies are truly exhaustive and absolutely objective.Total impartiality is what we owe our young people, our fellow citizens and the Turkish people who hope to join us." And casting his view more extensively into the wider Europe,Prodi remarked:"The new neighbourhood policy has given us an original and realistic formula for putting forward a new model for our increasingly closer relationship with our new neighbours,creating a ring of friendly countries throughout the region,from Morocco to Russia." (2) The New European Union The entry of eight central and eastern European countries together with Cyprus and Malta into the European Union on May 1,2004,was a historic achievement,ending centuries of division.Europe reunited means a stronger,democratic and more stable continent,with a single market providing economic benefits for all its 450 million citizens. Open doors The European Union has come a long way since the original six member states joined forces to create the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and the European Economic Community in 1957,calling upon the peoples of Europe 'who share their ideas to join their efforts." The six became nine in 1973,and had grown to 15 by 1995.In the meantime,the European Union (as it had become by then)had created a single market and a single currency and had expanded its economic and social agenda to foreign and security policy as well. The present enlargement,from 15 to 25,is the biggest in Union history.It has its roots in the collapse of communism,symbolised in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989,which offered an unexpected and unprecedented opportunity to extend European integration into central and eastern Europe.One of the Union's first post-enlargement priorities is to raise the newcomers' living standards,which are all well below the EU average. 第6页共9页高级商务英语阅读 was taking its duties. “It would be premature to reveal the contents of the report, but I can say that we are collecting analyses, facts and evidence at every level. We can thus ensure that our studies are truly exhaustive and absolutely objective. Total impartiality is what we owe our young people, our fellow citizens and the Turkish people who hope to join us.” And casting his view more extensively into the wider Europe, Prodi remarked: “The new neighbourhood policy has given us an original and realistic formula for putting forward a new model for our increasingly closer relationship with our new neighbours, creating a ring of friendly countries throughout the region, from Morocco to Russia.” (2) The New European Union The entry of eight central and eastern European countries together with Cyprus and Malta into the European Union on May 1, 2004, was a historic achievement, ending centuries of division. Europe reunited means a stronger, democratic and more stable continent, with a single market providing economic benefits for all its 450 million citizens. Open doors The European Union has come a long way since the original six member states joined forces to create the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951 and the European Economic Community in 1957, calling upon the peoples of Europe “who share their ideas to join their efforts.” The six became nine in 1973, and had grown to 15 by 1995. In the meantime, the European Union (as it had become by then) had created a single market and a single currency and had expanded its economic and social agenda to foreign and security policy as well. The present enlargement, from 15 to 25, is the biggest in Union history. It has its roots in the collapse of communism, symbolised in the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, which offered an unexpected and unprecedented opportunity to extend European integration into central and eastern Europe. One of the Union’s first post-enlargement priorities is to raise the newcomers’ living standards, which are all well below the EU average. 第 6 页 共 9 页