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4/24/08

Europe's Marxist dilemma

Economist.com

"Europe's Marxist dilemma

Apr 24th 2008

It is easier to influence a country before than after it joins the club

GROUCHO MARX once said that he did not care to belong to a club that accepted people like him as members. The European Union has a slightly different problem. Lots of countries want to get in, even though many of them, and indeed some that have already made it, are not fit to join. They seem to hope that EU membership will work miracles of its own, curing such ills as entrenched corruption, organised crime, judicial ineffectiveness and economic backwardness—all without their having to make painful reforms at home."

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