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European Commission officials are discussing that in Greece this week.None of the ten "Christian Louboutin " countries that joined the EU is in so bad a mess. They include hotshots and slowcoaches, places that feel thoroughly modern and those where the air still bears a rancid tang from past misrule. Slovenia and the Czech Republic, for example, have overhauled living standards in Portugal, the poorest country in the "western" camp. Neither was badly hit by the economic downturn. Some of the ex-communist countries now have better credit ratings than old EU members and can borrow more Christian Louboutin covered studs sandals. Together with Slovakia, Slovenia has joined the euro, which Sweden, Denmark and Britain have not. Estonia--at least in outsiders' eyes--is one of the least corrupt countries in Europe, easily beating founder members of the EU such as Italy.Three sub-categories do make sense. One is the five autocratic 'stans of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). They scarcely count as "Europe", though a hefty Britain-sized tenth of Kazakhstani territory (some 200,000 square kilometres) lies unambiguously in Europe. Kazakhstan also this year chairs the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a Vienna-based post-cold-war talking shop. But none of the 'stans has become a member of the Christian Louboutin Crepe Satin d'Orsay of Europe (another talking shop and human-rights guardian, based in Strasbourg). That shows the problem. The definition of "Europe" is as unreliable as the word "eastern".The 'stans vary (Tajikistan is poor, Kazakhstan go-getting). But all have slim prospects of joining the EU in the lifetime of anyone reading this article. That creates a second useful category: potential members of the union. It starts with sure-fire bets such as Croatia, and other small digestible countries in the western Balkans such as Macedonia. It includes big problematic cases such as Turkey and Ukraine and even--in another optimistic couple of decades--four other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan (the last, maybe, one day, on Turkey's coat-tails).The third and trickiest category is the ten countries that joined in the big enlargement of 2004 and in the later expansion of 2007. They are a mixed bunch, ranging from model EU citizens such as Estonia (recently smitten by a property bust, but all set to gain permission this year to join the euro) to Romania and Bulgaria, which have become bywords in Brussels for corruption and organised crime respectively. Eight of them (Romania and Bulgaria are the exceptions) have already joined Europe's Schengen passportless travel zone. Most (Poland is a big, rankling exception) also have visa-free travel to Christian Louboutin Double Platform Sandal Gold. All (unlike EU members Austria, Cyprus, Ireland and Malta) are in NATO.Some worries remain constant, mild in the countries in or near the EU, more troubling in those in the waiting room and beyond.
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