if you're to argue for the noisome evil of the EU in all things, it's hard to explain away why they're letting the Eastern European nations in to their exclusionist super-state so quickly.
Geopolitics, largely - the Eastern European states will be part of a power block, and with the demise of the USSR, the choices are pretty much the EU or the USA. Offering them economic advantages is meant to buy them, and fulfils the dream of plenty of European statesmen of 'reuniting' Europe. Many European politicians are deeply resentful of the fact that the USA has a smaller population, but is punching much higher than its weight in world affairs (which in a sense is fair enough I suppose, I just don't especially want to be part of an anti-American superpower). Of course it might all go wrong for them, given the number of central European states that were happy to line up with the US over Iraq.
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Geopolitics, largely - the Eastern European states will be part of a power block, and with the demise of the USSR, the choices are pretty much the EU or the USA. Offering them economic advantages is meant to buy them, and fulfils the dream of plenty of European statesmen of 'reuniting' Europe. Many European politicians are deeply resentful of the fact that the USA has a smaller population, but is punching much higher than its weight in world affairs (which in a sense is fair enough I suppose, I just don't especially want to be part of an anti-American superpower). Of course it might all go wrong for them, given the number of central European states that were happy to line up with the US over Iraq.