Original sentence: " This was confirmed by a Polish-Swedish authored EU strategy which outlined full integration short of membership being offered to states in the East of Europe but no enlargement perspective offered in the short to medium term.At present, Croatia is set to accede to the EU in 2013 and there are five recognised candidates for membership: Iceland (applied 2009), Macedonia (applied 2004), Montenegro (applied 2008), Serbia (applied 2009) and Turkey (applied 1987).On Central and Eastern European countries not being parts of the EU, Heather Grabbe (UK) of the Centre for European Reform commented: "Belarus is too authoritarian, Moldova too poor, Ukraine too large, and Russia too scary for the EU to contemplate offering membership any time soon
Edited sentence: At present, Croatia is set to accede to the EU in 2013 and there are five other recognised candidates for membership: Iceland (applied 2009), Macedonia (applied 2004), Montenegro (applied 2008), Serbia (applied 2009) and Turkey (applied 1987).On Central and Eastern European countries not being parts of the EU, a Polish-Swedish authored EU strategy outlined full integration short of membership being offered to states in the East of Europe, but no enlargement perspective in the short to medium term