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