The signs are there that something has gone awry: thirteen years after the so-called “big bang” enlargement, European officials from the “new” member countries continue to lead their lives completely separately, or as critics may say, to form their own cliques. There are exceptions, of course, in particular and paradoxically the most recent arrivals, the Bulgarians and Romanians, not forgetting the Cypriots who, having no Turkish speakers, have quite naturally joined the Greek...