[ Personal ] EU Parliament Strasbourg

Yesterday, we went to the European Parliament in Strasbourg. I was astonished by the interesting architecture and remarkable interior design. Furthermore Strasbourg is very interesting city with very nice small streets,french people everywhere and a lot of fascinating buildings. However it was extremely cold so we didn't see as much as we wanted :-(
Anyway what we are left from this excursion is the news that Bulgaria and Romania are going to enter the EU earliest in 2008. This was mentioned as indisputable fact from one of the gentlemen in the picture(German representative in the EUP),while he was explaining some of the current issues to the german group that we were with. He didn't consider it an open topic at all ,he mentioned it in a sentence like: "..with the new members joining in 2008,we need to do now this and that...". This was in German of course :)
However since we requested more details on this topic ,he was very surprised by our current standing. He said that it is known to most of the people in the parliament that we cannot enter with the current state of our justice department and corruption levels.
He said it is only a question of formallity to make this decision official.

Congratulations and lets hope for 2008!