Very well then, come to Prague and drown your sorrow at the ending of fourteen years of poor, fairly-isolated independence from the most benevolent super-state around in quantities of fine Plzner beer.

And national sovereignty? For a nation of ten million, on the Belorussian frontier, without a hydrogen-bomb between them, and 20% lower GDP per capital than Poland?

Yes, it moves around the development money, but I'm not sure I'd not rather more of my tax money go to the smallholders of Brno and less to the Duke of Buccleuch.