An EU question

We know that our vast French readership eagerly awaits our official position on the European Constitution referendum there at the end of next month. As of now, we're a tad disillusioned with where the EU is headed and so the forthcoming BoBW position paper (available in English only) is likely to recommend a No vote.

One example of why we're leaning this way is the following. The continued imperative for eastward expansion of the EU is captured in today's ceremony in Luxembourg to mark the agreement that Bulgaria and Romania will enter the EU in less than two years. So: why is the EU planning to admit a country, Romania, from which the existing EU members are still having to deal with asylum seekers? Example: the Republic of Ireland:

A total of 1,250 applications have been received in the first three months of this year. Almost half these came from Nigeria with the remainder from Somalia, Romania, Afghanistan and Sudan.

To belabour the obvious, doesn't it seem that a country's ability to generate home-grown refugees might be seen as a bad sign of its fitness for membership?