Når det er sagt, kræver optagelsen af de nye stater en grundlæggende ændring af vores institutioners funktioner, der ofte nærmest er paralyseret allerede nu, hvor vi er 15 medlemsstater. ###>Having said that, the accession of new Member States requires an in-depth revision of the way our institutions function, because those institutions have almost been brought to a standstill already, when we have only fifteen Member States.