The EU is politically not sufficiently prepared for May 1, EU Commissioner on Enlargement Gunter Verheugen commented Monday to German Daily Der Standard about the enlargement of the European Union just three months away.

The Commissioner, who played a crucial part in the process, elaborated that while technical goals had been achieved in areas such as the internal market and monetary union, important aims in European policy are scarcely reachable in the medium term.

Verheugen was also critical of one of the main economic goals of the EU. It is "already possible to see that Europe will not reach the goal of becoming, economically, the most dynamic region in the world", said the Commissioner.

The reason thereof is that "at the moment we cannot fully use our potential due to strong national interests".

The national egoism surrounding the debate on the EU Constitution came in for criticism, too