A controversial documentary that provides unprecedented access to European leaders during the crucial negotiations to admit new member states into the European Union. The film has stirred an international debate and caused a crisis in the relationship between the Danish Prime Minister and his counterparts in France and Germany.

For the first time ever a camera unit has managed to get behind the facade of the EU power apparatus. "The Road to Europe" follows the Danish Prime Minister and EU President Anders Fogh Rasmussen, as he leads the negotiations towards the enlargement.

The documentary provides a revelatory insight into what EU leaders really think of Turkey's application for membership. We see the "before and after" of the Turkish government's meeting with the EU, and when this sensitive issue is discussed in the presidency's innermost circle. We listen as the Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig M�ller, briefs the Prime Minister on Germany's position on Turkey's application. We hear him say that German Foreign Minister Joscka Fischer, has told him that Turkey can never become a real member. And we hear how the decision on what to offer Turkey was really made.

We also meet a desperate Polish Prime Minister whose government is on the verge of collapse, a furious President Putin caught off-guard as he brands all journalists "bandits" and a German Chancellor fighting to reform the EU agricultural subsidies.