The substance remains the same. The paragraph which last week's Summit gave to the EU's “absorption capacity” of new Members in the future called attention particularly to one issue: the care heads of government took to specify it was not a new “criterion” to be added to the “Copenhagen Criteria” (and to which all new accession countries have had to adhere as a condition of entry since 1993). The idea of an additional criterion alarmed some third countries and provoked reactions...