I'm aware of the Copenhagen criteria, but in reality the European Union is a poor guardian engel whenever it comes to human rights. I could also ask you the following: Do you honestly believe that the authorities in any of the Baltic countries, say the police for instance, would subscribe to modern human rights standards in practice on a level equalient to that in the US? Did you know that 30 per cent of the Russian minority in Estonia and Latvia have virtually no rights? Both countries are fullblown apartheid regimes.