>--- uvj at vsnl.com wrote:
>How is it Ukraine and Turkey seem determined to join
>the EU?
>
>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.
If that is the case, why did Russian back Yanukovich in the recent elections in Ukraine?
Ulhas