Croatia to join EU in 2013

Should the EU be expanding whilst the euro could still collapse?

Croatia is joining the EU, not the euro.

The loosened up trade barriers will help the Croatian economy. Welcome aboard Croatia!



Is Serbia really that close to joining too? I thought they were still a good decade away of even talks..
 
Croatia is joining the EU, not the euro.

The loosened up trade barriers will help the Croatian economy. Welcome aboard Croatia!



Is Serbia really that close to joining too? I thought they were still a good decade away of even talks..

Maybe not I may have misunderstood exact status.

from BBC

Candidate status has boosted Montenegro's bid and the EU plans to open the country's accession talks in June 2012.
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Serbia is unlikely to join the EU until at least 2015. But the high-profile arrests have put Serbia on track to get EU candidate status before March 2012.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-11283616
 
As far as I've understood, Serbia is close to achieving candidate status. You know, what Turkey has for years now.
 
I understand Slovenia, but Croatia, if Montenegro enters before us I'm going to go all protest and revolution on our "government".

Female dog please, you've got a country that has an army that serves no exact people. Vojska bez drzave. Not to mention the parliament is holding together barely as it is. Now I'm not going to say, Croatia is great. It is not. It is fornication horrendous. But we're still better off at least ethnicity wise than B&H.
 
It is not. It is fornication horrendous
Thats where I want to be!!
Thats no real arguement!
 
Well I suppose you can say only one kind of politician is stealing from you, whereas in Bosnia you have politicians of three different nationalities stealing from you. Not that I care for nationalities. It just means the parliament is triply ineffective.
 
Well I suppose you can say only one kind of politician is stealing from you, whereas in Bosnia you have politicians of three different nationalities stealing from you. Not that I care for nationalities. It just means the parliament is triply ineffective.

Well... in Denmark you have you have the national companies stealing from you, you have the multinational companies stealing from you, then you have the banks stealing from you and then you have the EU stealing from you and then you have the regular people stealing from you.

Bosnia is as legit to enter the EU as anyone else...
It is all BS anyway and just a way to make way for an inter-nation-nal government all made up to screw the population and harvest whatever the individual nations might have of resources and riches.
 
We only have 13 parliaments [sarcasm]. I'm not pointing fingers but the Serbs wouldn't want the regional and the one parliament one president because we [Bosniaks] account for ~50% of the population and if we make a coalition with the smaller Croat group ~14% we can always outweigh the Serbs.
 
Slovenia and Croatia are the two ex-Yugoslav countries that are unquestionably Western, so no wonder they enter the EU before the rest.
 
We only have 13 parliaments [sarcasm]. I'm not pointing fingers but the Serbs wouldn't want the regional and the one parliament one president because we [Bosniaks] account for ~50% of the population and if we make a coalition with the smaller Croat group ~14% we can always outweigh the Serbs.

Well after Serbia joins the EU towards 2020 will the Bosnian Serbs look at Serbia and see what they are missing. The serb leardership will also be getting older and hopefully the tensions that led to the civil war will not be shared to such an extent by younger people.
 
Strong ties to Austria and Hungary respectively, I suppose. I'm not too sure about Croatia but it's clearly the case for Slovenia.
 
Then what about northern Serbia does that count for Serbia.
 
Ah, the catholic thing. As one familiar with the region somewhat ...Croatia-proper and Serbia are pretty much identical, but it is true that Dalmatia is very "Italian" and you always see Austrian and German cars. I guess Italians are sort of "western", so Dalmatia sort of qualifies as "more Western".
 
Strong ties to Austria and Hungary respectively, I suppose. I'm not too sure about Croatia but it's clearly the case for Slovenia.
History dies hard in some places. The Austrians will have Croatia in the EU well before Turkey gets seriously considered, that's for damn sure. The world just isn't put together the right way, should the opposite occur. Just like Sweden doesn't give a rat's ass about Croatia, but for reasons of history is strikingly positive to Turkish membership.
 
Pangur Bán;11109880 said:
Ah, the catholic thing. As one familiar with the region somewhat ...Croatia-proper and Serbia are pretty much identical, but it is true that Dalmatia is very "Italian" and you always see Austrian and German cars. I guess Italians are sort of "western", so Dalmatia sort of qualifies as "more Western".
Winner's an atheist, but the God he doesn't believe in is papist.
 
The previous expansion was already a mistake. This one is an even bigger one, considering the economical situation.

You consolidate before expanding, and the EU has overextended far too much without integrating more in-between. It's just diluting itself and preparing the recipe for even more disaster...
 
The previous expansion was already a mistake. This one is an even bigger one, considering the economical situation.

You consolidate before expanding, and the EU has overextended far too much without integrating more in-between. It's just diluting itself and preparing the recipe for even more disaster...
That argument probably had some merit when there were 12 or 15 members in the EU.

One more small central European country isn't going to make much of a difference.

Welcome Croatia.
 
Croatia as country has a lot to offer to EU and EU has a lot to offer to Croatia. Only my concern is their ultranationalism.
 
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