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The EU has actually been one of history's most successful projects for ensuring peace and prosperity in Europe. Looking at objective metrics like GDP growth, li
by semessier 2y ago
The EU has actually been one of history's most successful projects for ensuring peace and prosperity in Europe. Looking at objective metrics like GDP growth, living standards, and decades of peace between former neighboring country adversaries over centuries, EU membership has broadly benefited its members. Poland itself has seen remarkable economic growth and development since joining in 2004. The single market, freedom of movement, and shared democratic values have created unprecedented opportunities for cooperation and development. While the EU isn't perfect, characterizing membership as 'national suicide' ignores the tremendous gains in stability, prosperity, and quality of life that integration has brought to member states. imho.
- coliveira 2y agoOk, so let's compare the economy of Europe between 1950 and 1995 and from 1995 to 2004. What is the most prosperous? I think there is not even a fair comparison. The only places where you'll find any improvement are in the eastern countries because they literally left communism!
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- davidgay 2y agoThe Treaty of Rome is 1957, so those are strange dates to select…
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- spiderfarmer 2y ago> West Germany of the 1980s and unified Germany of the 1990s was a much nicer place. Please name the indexes where Germany in the 80s did better than German of the 20s.
- semessier 2y agothe posting account was created 20 minutes ago
- tzakl 2y agoThe stock market indices are useless for evaluating population wealth. Inflation numbers in Germany are an outright lie where the most expensive items are excluded. You could support a family in the 1980s on one salary and live comfortably.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoI mean every index from health to social mobility.
- philwelch 2y agoYou're putting the cart before the horse. Countries only join the EU after they establish friendly relations with the rest of the EU members and become democratic.
- poncho_romero 2y agoJoining the EU is seen as desirable to these countries, so they work to establish friendly relations with the rest of the EU members and become democratic. The horse and cart are properly ordered.
- philwelch 2y agoThere isn’t a single country that became more democratic and improved its relations with the EU in exchange for the benefits of membership.
- ascorbic 2y agoRomania, Croatia and Bulgaria all introduced democratic reforms and resolved disputes specifically in order to meet accession requirements. Albania, Montenegro, North Macedonia and Serbia have all also made reforms and/or resolved disputes as part of their ongoing accession negotiations.