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Croatia cleared for EU membership in 2013

  • 12-06-2011 5:27pm
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    Crann na Beatha
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    Scofflaw
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    I'm not sure expansion is always based on a 'cost-benefit' analysis from the perspective of the EU (although it's sometimes based on geopolitical considerations). I don't think Ireland offered the EU very much when we joined.

    As to whether Croatia is really ready for EU membership...I don't know. However, if one had to answer the question in respect of Ireland at entry - priest-ridden, poor, and deeply parochial - or of, say Portugal or Spain - just out of military rulership - or of Greece - again, just out of military rulership, and with bitter and abiding civil divisions papered over by pork barrel politics - then I suppose you have to say that the EU is only, again, taking in a country with a very troubled recent past largely in the hopes of helping it have a better future.

    Oddly enough, there are people out there who take the 'peace mission' of the EU very seriously.

    cordially,
    Scofflaw


  • #3
    oscarBravo
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    Scofflaw wrote: »
    Oddly enough, there are people out there who take the 'peace mission' of the EU very seriously.
    From conversations I've had in Brussels, I think most people would be surprised at just how seriously, and just how numerous.


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