1.   Today the fear, ill-founded but potent, is that eastern enlargement of the EU will flood Germany with cheap workers and criminals.

2.   True, it has a plan for eastern enlargement.

3.   The eastern enlargement will top the agenda of the biannual summit in Essen, Germany, as that country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

4.   The eastern enlargement will top the agenda of the summit in Essen, Germany.

5.   The eastern enlargement will top the agenda of the two-day summit in Essen, Germany, which begins Friday.

6.   He pointed to the risk that efforts by EU Mediterranean states to safeguard their economic interests could hold up or even block planned eastern enlargement.