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> Why would we want to join the EU?

Look at any chart that shows any useful economic metric or things like life expectancy of eastern/central European countries before and after they joined the EU. It's almost to good to be true.

> The level of life in EU is declining, while rising in Russia.

That's quite easy when your GDP per capita is behind Trinidad & Tobago or even Cuba.



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