Brussels, 20/02/2009 (Agence Europe) - As expected, the European Commission adopted a communication on Friday 20 February 2009 looking at the two most recent rounds of enlargement of the European Union five years on (see EUROPE 9844). The analysis focusses on economic issues and points out that the enlargement of the 12 new countries had benefitted the EU as a whole. The new member states experienced an improvement in their standard of living and the old member states benefitted from...