I've always thought that the EU entry rules and standards were too low for countries to join, but what I saw right now made my jaw drop. I was searching the world vision website to see how much it would cost to sponsor a child (I'm going to cancel my greenpeace donations cause they don't do anything), with the idea I would find a child somwhere in africa, but you can actually sponsor a child from Romania and Albania! Albania is a pretty backwater country but Romania? arn't they in the EU already? what standards does the EU have nowadays?
http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/sponsor/sponsor-romania?Open&lpos=lft_txt_Romania
http://www.worldvision.org/content.nsf/sponsor/sponsor-romania?Open&lpos=lft_txt_Romania