Tomorrow (May 1) marks the twentieth anniversary of the biggest enlargement of the European Union. In 2004, ten countries from Central and Eastern Europe along with Malta and Cyprus, joined the bloc increasing its number from fifteen (15) to twenty five (25). Irish man Pat Cox was the president of the European Parliament at the time. He remembers the celebrations to welcome in the new member states
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