And I would like to say congratulations and welcome .

I think this is a thoroughly good thing. That may surprise some of you that associate me with anti-EU posts. But I take each issue as it comes. I am against many of the EU initiatives, but expansion is not one of them.

you think the best way to destroy it is to make it bigger?

From a British perspective:

I think the new countries will largely be allies of Britain, when we often look isolated within the EU. They are new markets for British goods and British investment. Immigrants coming into Britain does not bother me (as long as the come legally and work) - I believe they will largely do jobs that British people don't want to, for example, farm labourers and so on. There are the potential for some negative effects the exploitation of the NHS, but this is a problem with the way the NHS works as opposed to EU expansion.

I think the drift of labourers in an overstated risk.

From the new country perspective:

Whether it is good news for the countries I don't know. In some ways yes, and in others no. There will be investment in their countries, but I think there will be a brain drain, and profit drain. Good things and bad things. I would be interested in people from those countries (or anywhere else for that matter) viewpoints and any other views. .

I believe it is very good news for their country. It will lead to more investment yes. More comapanies will go east where new opportunities are opening up. I feel any brain drain will be replaced by traffic the other way. For the countries joining it is definitely a good thing and I don't htink many would disagree.

The only problem I have is that I tend to think that the EU will become even more unwieldy.

For the time being welcome to the new countries, I hope it works out for you


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