Working Out the Sticky Issues

The historic summit almost a year ago welcoming 10 new candidate countries has come and gone, but the sticky issues that once threatened expansion remain.

Complaints about the amount of agricultural aid new countries will receive continues to anger officials and farmers in Poland and Hungary and the status of the divided island of Cyprus remains unclear - leading the EU on a collision course with Turkey.

DW-WORLD outlines the hurdles, both present and future once Europe moves east.