Romania's and Bulgaria's accession to the European Union was celebrated on Thursday in Brussels, with officials symbolically adding two pieces of gingerbread shaped as the two countries to the gingerbread cake shaped as the EU map before January 1st, 2007.

President Basescu and PM Tariceanu had nothing to discuss backstage, but acted as best friends on stage, as usual. The party yesterday was a first event in three months dedicated to the new enlargement wave.

People participating in the events are to be photographed in order to build the longest human chain ever, in an unprecedented initiative coming from MTV.

The happy event on Thursday was a sad moment for South-Balkan countries and for Turkey, given the accelerated anti-enlargement movement in Europe.