If one would see it from the British point of view the EU could be successful without absorbing the new members, but since most other countries would like to see the above mentioned goals implied and would like to realize the dream of de Gaulle, Adenauer and others of "the United States of Europe", the new members would surrender a huge part of their sovereignty and consequently would be absorbed by the EU, especially considering that they will join in a couple of years at the earliest when European integration will hopefully have advanced beyond the point it is today. Another point one could consider is what would happen if the European integration would further advance up to the point of the United States of Europe without any new countries joining. This would create another superpower alongside the USA and the then non-members would live in the shadow of the EU or whatever its name would be by that time and also be absorbed by the enormous power, in any terms, of their big neighbour just like the Caribbean, Canada and Mexico, even the entire Americas are by the USA. So the conclusion drawn by this could be that the central and eastern European countries would be better off in any case if they joined the EU even if they had to surrender much of their sovereignty. Sources:
(1) http://www.europa.eu.int/ (March 17th, 2001) (2) http://idw.tu-clausthal.de/public/zeige_pm.html?pmid=26445 (April 5th, 2001) (3) Informationen zur politischen Bildung: Europäische Union (BpB, 1995) (4) Microsoft Encarta 98 (5) Mittel- und Osteuropa auf dem Weg in die Europäische Union (Werner Weidenfeld, Verlag Bertelsmann Stiftung, 1996) (6) http://www.e-politik.de/beitrag.cfm?Beitrag_ID=559 (April 1st, 2001)
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