EU expansion has made Europe more democratic and stable, reunited a once-divided continent and injected competitiveness into a block only patchily prepared for globalisation.

• 欧盟扩大让欧洲更加民主更加稳定，让一度分裂的大陆团结起来了，让没有准备好应对全球化的一个集团注入了竞争的活力。