> Please name me 3 foodstuffs you have in your kitchen made in some Eastern EU country. How is it my fault that your stuff tastes bad? ;) > no factories from

> Please name me 3 foodstuffs you have in your kitchen made in some Eastern EU country. How is it my fault that your stuff tastes bad? ;) > no factories from Greece or Spain moved to Eastern Europe. That's because they largely didn't exist in the first place; whereas they definitely did from Italy, which you carefully avoided mentioning, or the UK. > In exchange they also had to suffer a huge increase in cost of living, food and energy prices That's just capitalism in action, and it's the same for pretty much anyone on the continent at the moment. (oh, actually, it's worse here in UK, with sustained double-digit inflation, eye-watering energy prices that nobody else pays in Europe, and a house market used as reserve currency by rich foreigners).