Marseille-Provence 2013 plan. The Marseille rapper Keny Arkana wrote a song "Capitale de la rupture" that denounced the European Capital of Culture for pushing traditional residents to the side and trying to make Marseille just another "nice city on the Côte d’Azur". The sociologist Sylvia Girel also published a report noting that many people weren’t involved in MP2013, notably those in the poorer northern neighbourhoods of Marseille or the rural regions of Provence. In February 2013, the news website Marsactu revealed that the City of Marseille was providing a 400 000 euro subsidy for a concert at Parc Borély in Marseille by
2013 enlargement of the European Union 2013 enlargement of the European Union The 2013 enlargement of the European Union saw Croatia join the European Union as its 28th member state on 1 July 2013. The country applied for EU membership in 2003, and the European Commission recommended making it an official candidate in early 2004. Candidate country status was granted to Croatia by the European Council in mid-2004. The entry negotiations, while originally set for March 2005, began in October that year together with the screening process. The accession process of Croatia was complicated by the insistence of Slovenia, an EU member state, that the two