Some states want lengthy transition periods too.
"I'm just fascinated by transition periods in families," he said.
The Czechs and Hungarians, for their part, are asking for 10-year transition periods.
And poorer new EU applicants could be subject to even longer transition periods when free movement is limited.
Honesty Outlook, an anti-corruption monthly publication in Sichuan province, claims false reports tend to rise sharply during transition periods.
The only way to avoid expensive transition periods would be to wait until scientists develop a complete prevention method – and then implement it from scratch.
The city has a policy against transferring children discharged from psychiatric hospitals to its Children's Center, which temporarily houses other children during transition periods, according to Legal Aid.
EU enlargement will still be some years off, and the applicants will anyway face long transition periods before they get the full benefit (and cost) of the CAP.
"The thinking that we need long transition periods 14 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall shows a lack of solidarity," said Jan Figiel, Slovakia's candidate for a seat on the European Union's executive Commission.
He suggested that Mr. Barak, who resigned last month but continues in office as a caretaker, was taking advantage of laws intended to keep the government functioning in transition periods.
President-elect Barack Obama made a similar observation when he told "60 Minutes" that it was important to get a national security team in place "because transition periods are potentially times of vulnerability to a terrorist attack".
