East European Countries Joining the EU
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A number of former Eastern Block countries have applied to join the European Union. Outline eight key benefits that membership would bring.
One of the results of the European Council held in Helsinki in December 1999 was the endorsement of the application of six candidates countries thus paving the way to welcome twelve new member states in the EU. Out of these twelve states ten come from either what was up to a few years ago the Soviet Union, or former communist countries which was at that time known as the Eastern Bloc. These are Poland, Hungary Czech Republic, Slovak Republic, Bulgaria and Rumania which formed part of the communist block, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia forming part of the actual Soviet Union and Slovenia which formed part of the Yugoslav Federation. These applicants are now known as CEEC or Central and Eastern European Countries.
After these countries emerged out of the cocoon that engulfed them over these past decades, all of them chose the way of the European Union and one can safely say that in most cases if not in all the motives and reasons were the same. Thus the major benefits that these CEECs will benefit from would be identical.
The Political Benefits.
These countries with the exception of Slovenia have just emerged from under the grips of the then Soviet Union while Slovenia was the only country of the Yugoslav Federation that was ceded without a civil war...