Brussels, 02/01/2007 (Agence Europe) - As at 1 January 2007, Bulgaria and Romania joined the European Union - which now has 27 Member States and 492.8 million inhabitants. Bulgaria and Romania thereby completed the fifth round of EU enlargement (which began on 1 May 2004 with the accession of eight other countries from central and Eastern Europe, Cyprus and Malta). In a video message broadcast in Sofia and Bucharest in the night of 31 December, the President of the European Commission, Jose...