ON MAY 1 as fireworks illuminated Europe's skies from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean.

ON MAY 1 as fireworks illuminated Europe's skies from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea and the Baltic Sea to the Mediterranean, 10 countries joined the European Union (EU) with the strange members, the EU swelled to more than 450 million populace For the first time, a certain number of former centrally planned countries, including three that had been part of the Soviet Union, were welcomed into the club--a culmination