10 Countries admitted to the EU

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WARSAW (Reuters) - Eight former communist countries and two Mediterranean islands joined the European Union on Saturday in a historic reunification of western and eastern Europe 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Cyprus and Malta officially joined the EU at midnight central European time (1800 EDT).

This biggest ever enlargement makes the new 25-member EU the world's most powerful single trading bloc with 450 million citizens producing nearly one quarter of global wealth.

What do you think of this mega expansion? Especially those mooters already members of the EU. Will it help? Is it good for these countries? Or is there some animosity about it?