The pattern of intensive reform to qualify, followed by a let-up in the process once membership is achieved, is too common to be mere happenstance.

• 为了有资质加入欧盟便致力于深入的改革，而一旦加入了，改革进程就会随之减弱。此种模式已屡见不鲜，已不能简单的将其解释为：这不过又是一起“偶然事件”而已。