Trailing the other candidate countries from a considerable margin.

Trailing the other candidate countries from a considerable margin, Bulgaria and Romania remain a certain quantity of distance from accession. The Balkan pair will have to redouble their efforts to make EU membership a reality.

Bulgaria and Romania are sum of two units of the most agrarian economies in Central and Eastern Europe with the furthest to travel in denominations of rationalisation of the farm sector.

In all 25% (Bulgaria) and 44% (Romania) of the