Have any of you read that carefully enough ? L'Impresario made some excellent points, one of which being that this is not Bulgarians, or Romanians, it's gypsies. There's a huge difference - ask any Bulgarian, Romanian, or gypsy, they'll confirm.
Neither of them identifies with the other.

The guilty party for this, at least insofar as the article points out (and we are now referring to the article, I'm presuming) are the gypsies. Blaming the entire country for what a crappy lousy minority does would be equivalent to someone blaming all Americans for what some uneducated, unwashed, uncivilized, jobless illegal Mexican immigrants.
All countries have minorities that do shameful stuff. That does not mean you should judge the entire country by that minority. Would it be fair to judge the UK by its Pakistani/Bangladeshi people ? Would it be fair to judge the US by its mexicans, or some other minority with a bad track record ? Would it be fair to judge Canada by its native indians, who are at best working low-level jobs, if any at all ?

As for the trading babies, it's been going on for a loooooooooong time. Nothing special about this, or even new. There's been some huge scandals (on some very illegal adoptions, and trafficking of kids for organs), on and off - just like with everything else. This is just run-of-the-mill article material.
Guess who's _buying_ them kids: rich folks from the Western world... so I'm not sure any of us are holy enough to point fingers, when our/your own compatriots are just as guilty of the trafficking - it takes two to make a deal.
So questions like "Why would these countries even be considered for EU ?" don't make much sense, ya know. Should France be part of the EU ? I mean, look at what all the Maghrebians did a few months ago !! Surely the French don't deserve to live in Europe, after such huge violent riots and all that destruction !! Surely they are not civilized, and they should be excluded from the EU !

Double standards ? Naaaaah.