Bulgaria and Romania are broadly onward track to join the EU in 2007 according to the European Commission.

Bulgaria and Romania are broadly onward track to join the EU in 2007 according to the European Commission, further Turkey remains a much dimmer landscape and seems likely to be leapfrogged according to Croatia in the queue to join the bloc

Bulgaria and Romania, while beset from problems with corruption and weak administration, are depicted by the agency of the Commission in monitoring reports released this week as realistic contemplations for membership by their target year of 2007