EU Welcomes Newcomers Bulgaria, Romania
Bulgaria in EU | December 14, 2006, ThursdayThe European Union leaders are gathering in Brussels for a summit to open with a warm welcome to newcomers Bulgaria and Romania.
To celebrate this important occasion, the European Commission is organizing a major open-doors event in the center of Brussels, hosted by President Jose Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
On Thursday the festivities open at Place de l'Eglise St. Madeleine in the center of Brussels, at 11:00 am.
Addresses will be delivered on the part of EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and Romanian President Romanian President Traian Basescu will line up to speak shortly.
Then guests will see the unveiling and completion of the world's biggest ever gingerbread-and-marzipan map of Europe. The map will have record dimensions (3x3 metres), so it has been submitted for an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
Stanishev and Basescu will complete the enlarged EU's map by inserting two pieces corresponding to the maps of their countries into the gingerbread map of the EU.
A "Human Chain" initiative will be launched in cooperation with the music channel MTV. Young people will have their picture taken and uploaded on the TV station's website and become part of the human chain. They will have the opportunity to join their hands with people from all over Europe, first at the live launch, and later through cyberspace.
This initiative will continue all through the beginning of 2007 and will be accompanied by advertisements inviting thousands of young people to participate by uploading pictures from their computer and becoming part of this human chain.
The atmosphere will be kept hot in the cold winter thanks to the music of the Bulgarian band TE and the Romanian band SISTEM.
To celebrate this important occasion, the European Commission is organizing a major open-doors event in the center of Brussels, hosted by President Jose Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
On Thursday the festivities open at Place de l'Eglise St. Madeleine in the center of Brussels, at 11:00 am.
Addresses will be delivered on the part of EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Sergey Stanishev and Romanian President Romanian President Traian Basescu will line up to speak shortly.
Then guests will see the unveiling and completion of the world's biggest ever gingerbread-and-marzipan map of Europe. The map will have record dimensions (3x3 metres), so it has been submitted for an entry in the Guinness Book of Records.
Stanishev and Basescu will complete the enlarged EU's map by inserting two pieces corresponding to the maps of their countries into the gingerbread map of the EU.
A "Human Chain" initiative will be launched in cooperation with the music channel MTV. Young people will have their picture taken and uploaded on the TV station's website and become part of the human chain. They will have the opportunity to join their hands with people from all over Europe, first at the live launch, and later through cyberspace.
This initiative will continue all through the beginning of 2007 and will be accompanied by advertisements inviting thousands of young people to participate by uploading pictures from their computer and becoming part of this human chain.
The atmosphere will be kept hot in the cold winter thanks to the music of the Bulgarian band TE and the Romanian band SISTEM.
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