Two more countries have joined the EU, adding more than 30 millions people and hundreds of new problems to the already clogged EU enlargement process. Politics are betting on keeping a low profile for hiding the risks inherent to this fast integration of a big and poor chunk of the Balkan. More precisely the least developed part of Europe. However the mechanisms in place provide control over the evolutions of Romania and Bulgaria. This may still direct Germany and EU in general to a tougher attitude and the adoption of new institutions.
More interesting, as former Ottoman Empire members, this may seal a more decisive policy about turning the head of Europe towards East. If for many centuries, Europe's center was the Mediterranean Sea, and after that the Atlantic Ocean, we can hope that the time is coming for being more directed to the Black Sea / Caspian Sea.
The path to a multicultural Europe is certainly at the cost of an effort for this century to be a collaboration with countries that we contradicted for so long. But they still have exchanged extensively with Europe and are much open to its lights and values.
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