Estonia joins the EU

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by The Mad Monk

I guess you'll just have to throw in with us, then.

Gladly. Will you abolish the visa regime for us?

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Heresson

So, your neighbours can't do what they want because You don't feel good about it?

They can. But if we are friends, they should not make us suffer.

It's Russia that makes problems at the borders. Russian visas on Polish-Russian borders are 6x higher than Polish ones...

There were no problems (no visas) before you decided to submit to the EU bureaucracy.

When their problems with imperial ambitions, violating human rights, corruption etc will get smaller.
That's the optimistic version.

Russians will be treated better than any other EU neighbours anyway.

These last two observations don't alter the fact that the Russian people will suffer as a result of the expansion.

[laurentius]

Russian people only suffer because of your incompetent, corrupted, bully, imperialist, facist leaders. We - your neighbours know what were talking about. There just simply is no deal you guys haven't broke. Why shoul EU allow your mafia, prostitutes and car thieves flow freely to our rich homelands?

[Harovan]

Originally posted by laurentius
Russian people only suffer because of your incompetent, corrupted, bully, imperialist, facist leaders. We - your neighbours know what were talking about. There just simply is no deal you guys haven't broke. Why shoul EU allow your mafia, prostitutes and car thieves flow freely to our rich homelands?

It's not that keeping Russia out saves us from their mafia, prostitutes and (well, along with Polish) car thieves. Germany is full of all sorts of them. The Russian mafia owns half of our capital. May be the whole, but who cares about stynkin' Berlin. Despite this fact, I would gladly see a much better cooperation of the EU with Russia.

[Saras]

Karmen Kass = HOT!

[Dinner]

Russian girls are hot and should be welcomed in.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by Oerdin
Russian girls are hot and should be welcomed in.

So true.

[The Vagabond]

Great avatar, Sir Ralph Not that I just noticed it, but I simply didn't have an occasion to tell this to you.

[Harovan]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Great avatar, Sir Ralph Not that I just noticed it, but I simply didn't have an occasion to tell this to you.

He was a great guy. A pity that he died so young.

[Ecthy]

but who is he?

[C0ckney]

i swear i got the bum deal here. everyone goes on about how fit russian birds are and yet i worked all summer with birds from former soviet bloc countries and none of them were nice, ffs!

oh and we don't want russia, we've got enough economic basket cases already, like germany and france

[Combat Ingrid]

A Russian friend of mine suggested EU should join Russia as an autonomous oblast

But I wish Russia all the best and hope that they will join EU eventually

[The Vagabond]

Well, here I am not advocating for letting us into your "rich homelands" (i.e. a visa-free regime with the whole EU), although this matter can be discussed separately. What I am saying is more narrow in scope: conditions for the Russian people should not get worse as a result of the expansion (although if they get better it would be nice). This means in particular that if we now have a visa-free regime with certain East-European countries, it should stay like this after the expansion. Why the hell should a EU expansion mean a higher degree of isolation for us? After all, this contradicts to the very spirit of the EU. Or you expect us to sit back and fervently applaud the triumph a great international project, unparalleled in history, even if this project means a tighter stanglehold on us?

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Sir Ralph

He was a great guy. A pity that he died so young.

Sometimes this is a part of being great.

[Ecthy]

but who IS he?