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Re:Imperial Delusions by lucian1900 on Saturday July 17, 2021 @04:52PM (#27868773)
The transfers don’t even compare to how much our labour is exploited. The difference in wage for the same work is the main tool used for this. Another is forcing our countries into privatisation, deregulation and austerity.

We’re much worse off than before 89 and the EU is a large part of the reason why. Another is the IMF.

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Re:Imperial Delusions by laurencerowe on Saturday July 17, 2021 @05:42PM (#27869080)
At least in GDP per capita terms, Poland has caught up with Portugal and Czechia has caught up with Spain.

Meanwhile Ukraine, which was not on the EU track and was about as rich as Poland in 1989, saw a much longer drop in GDP after 1989 and its GDP per capita is now just 1/3rd of Poland's.

It's difficult to imagine how Eastern European countries would have fared better had they not joined the EU.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/gdp-per-capita-maddison-2...

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