Global criminal activities are transforming the international system, upending the rules, creating new players, and reconfiguring power in international politics and economics.

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The EU enlargement process is aimed at integrating new members into the web of EU standards, rules and subsidies, not at transforming its political rulers, says Ms Mungiu-Pippidi.

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Once it learns who you are and how much you have to offer, it make a ferocious effort to convince you that the money game is transforming, with profoundly new players, unimaginable new rules.

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