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Article: Europe: forward to the past: Hamish McRae sees ancient patterns restored as the European Union expands
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 17, 1994
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ONCE the little local difficulties of the European Union's voting
structure are resolved, the way will be clear to admit Sweden,
Austria, Finland and Norway as members. The likelihood is that the
first three at least (Norwegian voters may again balk, as they did in
1972) will duly join on 1 January next year. And within the next few
weeks central European countries such as Hungary, Poland and the
Czech Republic will start the process to become members by the turn
of the century. In the succeeding 20 years they will be joined by the
Baltic states, Ukraine, Armenia, Slovakia, Slovenia and so on,
including eventually the great bear of Russia itself . . . .
Or will they? What will the European ...