--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote: How is it Ukraine and Turkey seem determined to join the EU?
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I think that in the case of Ukraine it is mainly populist posturing. Yushchenko is no dummy. He knows that the EU's position has been that Ukraine will, and I quote Romano Prodi, "never" join the EU. There are various reasons for this:
1. Germany and France would have to open their borders to cheap Ukrainian goods. 2. Ukraine's population is 50 million people. That's a lot of pretty poor people for the EU to subsidize. 3. Ukraine has an oligarch-controlled economy. Those people are not going to comply with EU standards. 4. Ukraine's military-industrial complex is a major player in domestic politics and a huge part of the economy. Those guys aren't going to comply with EU standards either.
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