EU Enlargement: Twenty Years On | ARTE.tv Documentary
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- On 1 May 2004, the European Union welcomed ten new members, including eight countries from Central and Eastern Europe. This massive enlargement changed overnight the dynamics of the EU. Twenty years on, how has this enlargement in the East shaped the new member states and the EU as a whole?
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All credit to those who had the foresight to establish the EU, it’s an incredible achievement, and one that should be cherished. It’s a complete and utter disgrace that people here in the UK chose to depart.
Misinformation and not understanding the role of the EU.
It's not like Norway and Switzerland are poor countries because of not being in EU. You can trade and implement laws whatever you want without being in EU.
@@DDtch6669 The West lives on the EU and its single market and the US market. Those are the two pillars of the west. The other nations live in their shadow.
Neah, they saw the writing on the wall. The irony is they did it too late and they suffer from the same disease as the EU, unregulated migration from third world non-European countries.
@@DDtch6669Try explaining that to leftists is impossible 😂😂 they sleep with the EU flag under the pillow and they have also a portrait with ms. Ursula on the bedroom 😂
As a Pole i have noticed that Baltic states have developed faster than Poland however 2008 showed that crisis bypassed Poland .I would compare Poland and Estonia to big and small carriage which you can move difficult but also it was difficult to stop in 2008
They're much smaller and had less structural problems than us. We shouldn't compare to small countries, more to bigger ones like Germany, France, Ukraine. Poland after commmies rule/ being part of russkij mir was a real ruin in 1989, a bankrupt, fallen country. We had to start from the very beginning and we did a great job. Of course there is still a lot to do and we should focus on developing and moving forward.
More or less 3 times more people live in Polish capital of Warsaw than in Latvia. Do not even compare it because it is useless.
@@aga-ja6855Poland looks like a Paradies to us in Romania (only your weather is worse 😛). But we’ll catch slowly up to the rest of Europe and have just reached the wages of Hungary.
@@sebastianr1204 Thanks:) yes, the weather may be tough, especially November is rainy and gloomy. I've never been to Romania so I can't confirm if it's true but I'd like to go and see it one day:) I've heard that you have great wine (might even try some I think) and historic sites to see like castles Transylvania and Dracula ;) I also heard that Romania changed a lot, in a positive way. And that your economy has an impressively good growth rate, like PL used to have before. Yes, the most important thing is you're developing and using your chance for good life in prosperity. Poland also has to repair many things after last 8 years of populists rule, we have a lot of catching up to do too:) the job is not finished yet:) But eventually we'll all get there:) The most important thing is not to give up and use the best opportunity in history that ever existed..
Poland is simply much bigger, and 2008 crisis was averted mostly thanks to us having a large enough internal market & consomption. Compare it to a ship - bigger one is harder to be sunk, but also harder to steer and maneuvre.
THANKS FOR A GREAT DOCUMENTRAY. I have witnessed all these events and as I sit here watching this item I am accessing dark corners of my memory and joining a few dots! Danke!
Good documentary. Includes many perspectives from different parts of CEE. But you didn't go into details. Poland developed greatly in last 35 years (biggest economy in CEE, still growing) since it kicked out communism. And in 1989 it was a real economic ruin. Especially last 20 years of EU Membership had very positive impact on country and actually we're in a middle of a true Revolution/ Generational change in PL, where the whole new gen grew up already in EU an this generation is a gen of Europeans. Also new generations have totally diff values and beliefs, is more liberal, open, well-educated, well-travelled, knows foreign languages etc This new generations voted out populists in October 2023. Another interesting factor is the fastest in the world ssecularisation/ laicisation/ leaving the religion (only ca 20% of young people identify themselves as practicing catholics/ are going to church).
Anyways congrats to all 2004 EU Members. I'm grateful that we chose wisely and did everything to join EU.
Good? really? Arguments taken out of context represent leftist views, not the truth. Eastern European countries have been taken over by Western shops, banks, insurance companies, and numerous products from Germany, the Netherlands and France. The profits for Western companies are gigantic. And here they only talk about how much Estonia and Poland received from the EU. Manipulation.
oh, yeah, well-educated, like 'collegium tumanum' graduates. You are brainwashed. Education levels are dropping like a rock, todays university graduates have less knowledge than mid-school graduates from 30 years ago. Populists are still in power, just different ones. In fact, they are doing exactly the same thing, change is only verbal. One pack of thieves replaced other pack.
If you take a dump on your boss's desk, it's not called blackmail if your boss then decides to suspend you without pay
correction, "boss" is probably the wrong word; maybe more like sponsor? Since Hungary receives more money than it contributes to the EU
Only Slovenia seems to have a genuine interest in further enlargement into WB. The rest either don’t want to or don’t care enough.
It's difficult with countries like Serbia or Montenegro, they like more the ruSSki empire 😅
I hope Bosnia join the EU ✌️
No. Europe is a continent and not everyone understands equally the problems of other regions. It's normal that Slovenia understands and supports its neighbours the Balkans and it's normal that Poland or Baltic States are more involved in Ukraine or Belarus (here rather was than is). It's the same as with understanding the threat of RU imperialism- the North understand is better than the South because the South is more affected by e.g. illegal migration from Africa etc
@@Franchesko653 Serbia and Montenegro both have been promised EU for years, yet the entry date moves further away every year. First it was 2016, then 2020,2026 and now 2030. It’s totally reasonable to think we are being played for fools, and being Russia aligned is a response to such politics.
Montenegro is still on the EU track, more so with the new government. With only 600k inhabitants, it wouldn’t make a massive difference to the EU, so I’m quite surprised it is not already joined, as it would prove the EU’s seriousness about expanding.
@@milos4387 money laundry for russians, strong ties with China.
Nationalist governments that chalange borders, you are really surprised about the delay?
what is WB?
Boris Johnson dislikes this video!
Southern Europe were the losers. Southern Europe paid the price. There aren’t free lunches
Why? More potential tourists heading south, more potential buyers of oranges :).
The most metaphorical eastern European"we were wise, you were stupid, and we will use that now", talks about diplomatic clarity .
I am Polish and I am so proud we voted out our Orbal style PiS government. Polish People deserve so much better. We love freedom and Russia will never be our friend. Poland is not Hungary. Poland is split and devided. Always was. Eastern and Western Poland are two different worlds on many levels. It is a long story. Hungary's PM Orban was a different politicial decades ago. He even used to be in the same party in European Parlament as Poland's Pro EU PM Donald Tusk. These two do not get along anymore.
EU force you to get vaccinated, will force you to eat bugs, destroying farmers across Europe. force member states to accept mass migration. EU blocks money to countries that Germany see as "undemocratic".EU plan is to take rest of sovereignty from members states (abolish veto rights). Estonia and Poland achieve that success thanks to its own hard work. EU is transforming to "new USSR of Europe" ruled by Germany and France.
Did you know that you can still see clear differences in voting patterns in Poland along the old borders with Germany and Prussia? It's quite striking.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 @mysterioanonymous3206 Prussia don't exist, and pro Tusk majority is very small, just few percent. there is no such a thing in poland as pro Germany voters (meaby 1-2%)
@@puchatek5584 maybe you should read my comment again
@mysterioanonymous3206 I understand your comment. what you don't understand about me coment? this division between west and east of Poland is also ridiculous. very easy to debunk
Not bad
Well done 👏
Tys piknie
I understand why hardcoded subtitles are used, but it does make the documentary less accessible to non-French/German/English speakers.
UA-cam's auto-generated subtitles are far from perfect, and also lay over the in-built text.
Is it possible, and financially viable, to create subtitles in other European languages and upload them to UA-cam with access via the CC button?
I say this because I'm a British-German citizen living in Spain and am very aware of linguistic isolation in various national communities where English isn't understood beyond B1 level.
I wish there were an accessible EU funding infrastructure for pan-European subtitles. Including smaller-population languages such as Basque, Breton, Catalan, Welsh, Irish, (does Saxon count?).
I'm sure there are many regional languages I'm unaware of for whom the state language and local language are far more accessible than English.
Also Russian.
I include non-EU, neighbour languages because broadcasters like ARTE could be a great extension of soft power and influence with our neighbours
Unnecessary drone video shots and editing covered in a serene mood. What does it say actually? Nothing. It’s made for spending funds. I watched better UA-cam videos with qualified information and knowledge.
It’s the same freaks show that the USSR used to be.
Just focused on central Europe , what about the other countries like Romania and Bulgaria ...or they are not so important for EU???
They showed Poland because with its 38 milion people Poland was bigger than other 9 all together and there were huge political changes recently, they showed Hungay because it is a trouble kid and they showed Slovenia because it is small former Yugoslavian country which did the best job.
Romania is doing very well 👌Best regards from Poland✌️
This video is dedicated for the countries that joined the EU in 2004, 20 years ago. Bulgaria and Romania joined in 2007.
Maybe because Romania an Bulgaria didn't join in 2004 XD
In German public television, the Bavarian television is responsible for the South East. This documentary however was produced by the NDR, which is from the North. The look towards the Baltic Sea, Poland, Scandinavia, the Baltic countries.
Again some old women in power .That’s so outdated
Why all of a sudden it feels like I am watching Deutsche Welle documentary?
ARTE what happened?
Why so biased?
because you have no clue about german tv stations history and how arte is a state owned broadcast from day one and is a european project involving france from beginning. now get educated before you start showing how uneducated you are and by your immature passiv aggressiv comments. lol
this is like CNN for the states is. Corporate media.
Why so surprised?
Well ARTE always was very different to DW, BBC and Euronews.
And here it's just very one sided all of a sudden.
@@JakovWolf And what side is missing exactly?
pani ze starego kleparza bardzo madrze mowi moim zdaniem. Nie chodzi o opuszczenie europy tylko o zajecie w niej miejsca ktore odpowiada naszej demografii, wplywom i gospodarce
No tak, dlatego zmieniliśmy władzę w 10.2023. Żeby więcej nie klękać przez Orbanem, który bardzo mało znaczy w UE tylko żeby kształtować UE razem z Niemcami i Francuzami. Właśnie na tym to polega, a nie na osłabianiu własnej pozycji negocjacyjnej przez głupie awantury i brak zdolności pozyskania wsparcia innych członków EU.
@@aga-ja6855 tak, tez tak mysle. No i pis dal najlepszy argument tuskowi 'robicie o co was prosimy albo kaczynski wroci i znow bedzie wszystko psul'.
@@mohhie Ale o co ci chodzi z tym "róbcie o co was prosimy"? ja to widzę tak, ze to UE będzie robić to czego Trójkąt Weimarski będzie chciał, a Trójkąt Weimarski to tez Polska. Kaczyński to był prowincjonalnym kmiotem, który chciał zrobić z Polski druga Białoruś. Nigdy więcej tego typu ogłupienia w Polsce.
@@aga-ja6855 no wlasnie o to mi chodzi, tusk moze szachowac kmiotem francje i niemcy, win-win
@@mohhie aaa, no teraz kumam. No tak, zgadzam się z Tobą, ze to może być dodatkowa motywacja. Sporo można teraz ugrać w polityce międzynarodowej.
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The best is that the growing of Europe relatively shrink's Paris to the level of an other provincial city. And reduces French to just another local language, like Occitan, Basque, Dutch and German.
At least the French, and previously the British, have somewhat of an assertive foreign policy. The same can't be said for the rest of Europe, and esp Germany. It's a huge problem. And not least, France is a massive, developed economy. You should be very thankful for the French.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 To be honest, France represents better Western Europe interests while Germany represents better Central and Eastern ones.
@@mysterioanonymous3206 i disagree. I think France is the root cause of hundert's of years of wars and problems in Europa. And they still are. But the world fabric is changing away from the concepts what inspired the nation state world grounded under Louis 14.
@@duartesilva7907 Germany absolutely doesn't represent the views of Central and Eastern Europe, many things such as energy policy, foreign policy, and also ideological standings are vastly different.
That, in a nutshell is why the UK was so in favour of enlargement in the 90s
Everything in this video looks very beautiful, fair and profitable for everyone. But we know that rich European countries export rubbish to the new EU members. We also know that temporary industrial and rural workers recruited in the former Soviet republics receive low wages and are often exploited and unpaid by local agencies partnering with German, Italian, French and Spanish businesspeople. Women from the new European countries are exported to work as prostitutes in Germany, France, Holland, etc. Not to mention the growth of fascism, Nazism and racism in rich EU countries. Neoliberalism has impoverished huge populations in first-class EU countries and they take out their hatred and frustration on tourists and workers from second-class EU countries. The real Europe is very different from the European paradise shown here.
Duh.
Without joining the EU the problems you described would be bigger than now.
And EU member states which joined in 2004 do exactly the same to Ukrainians for example and I write it as a Pole. Using people as Cheap labour always was and always will be
What you saying is very true . And in the end these new places will become like france 🇫🇷, Germany 🇩🇪 and UK 🇬🇧 crap holes
@@Blanka1100 ukrainians have good callback rates to CVs sent out in Poland compared to natives, there had been studies on that. You don't have as good of a callback rate to migrants (even 2nd generation fully educated locally) in the west, this had been studied, quantified and put into sociological research papers.
Intuitively I believe the best way to fight with folks from poorer countries "stealing" jobs in the west would not be looking away when there are slave labour camps in Italy at the plantations, but being very strict with labour conditions. And why is non payment of wages not a criminal offence with prison time?
Germany is technologically backward, has poor internet, and uses faxes! They don't have Blik, QR codes, or SMS security alerts. Germany seems to think that Poland is a backwater and a village, but Poles in 2024 judge Germany like communist East Germany stuck in the 1990s. This program also shows some older Poles from the marketplace - what a stereotype. Poles do not aspire to be Germans but to live like Koreans or Singaporeans.
Poland is still lagging behind Germany in so many areas. Just because in Poland there is some Blik, doesn't mean that Germany is a backwater country. What a hilarious statement to begin with. Also, I don't know where you got the notion that the Polish want to be like the Singaporeans. Singapore is not quite a democratic country. We are much closer to the Germans, only poorer and more sentimental.
No offense, but statements like that are a sign of ignorance and mental backwardness. Blik is no miracle technology. It's just a plain payment system with several disadvantages in relation to the likes of VISA and Mastercard, one being absence of buyer protection in Blik.
What balls is the Estonian guy talking? Germany is same in red tape as Egypt or Pakistan. Digital economy is very less
The EUSSR
Xd nope, the United States of Europe, together with United States of America the biggest ruskies nightmare XD
Eastern Europeans voted to be EU members. They did not ask for being USSR puppets. It was made by force.
@@saccount-z3 is in ruSSia nowXD
I love watching EU propaganda. Bulgaria turned into a banana republic and everything is imported or manufactured by foreign companies but we are proud members of the union. lol
@@_Meng_Lan Enver Hoxha ruled Albania. Bulgaria isn't Albania.
The EU can't do it for you, it's Bulgarians problem.
The EU is the biggest mistake in the Bulgarian history.
Some new members have done very well in EU. Perhaps the culprits are closer to home
@netiturtle the single market is screwing the local companies. We are importing stuff without tariffs and at the same time people can't go work in Western Europe for a better salaries because they don't speak the language. This is not how it is supposed to be.
This is real propaganda for people who don’t understand long term and critical economics.
No, those are the facts. And both sides were shown. You just don't get it.
It’s normal when it comes to EUSSR 😂😂 they are created specifically on propaganda.
@@adrianstere nope, only RU is created on propaganda. It's a huge lie: colonised nations that have nothing in commonXD apart from being ruled by tsarXD
As for EU, it becomes the biggest nightmare for Russia: the next United States that are crushing RU economically and militaryXD Russia is only ca 1,8% of the world GDP, USA alone is ca 25%. XD
Whit the enlargement west EU became Poor like Eastern Europe. 😢
If Western Europea is poorer it is not because Eastern Europe. Maybe they simply did not like working as hard as Eastern Europeans or were not able to take adventage of EU enlargement. It is not a cost only. It is a chance for Western Europe as well.
XD of course not. Before the enlargement e.g. Germany was in recession and after, its economy improved as well as economies of those 10 countries. It was profitable for both sides.
It’s quite in the other way! Western Europe (well, in reality when I mean Western Europe I refer to the huge corporations, politicians and elite) has benefited greatly from the enlargement of the EU. They forced the ex. Communist countries to close and sell of their factories and companies for pennies in order to enter EU. Then they sell their shorty products (more Germoney and France) into there. Their companies are also in charge of literally every EU fund that is accessed by those countries. On top of that they fund bunch of NGOs in order to oppose the development of big infrastructure projects in those areas in order to keep them poor enough so they can still dump their products there.
@@adrianstere XD those commie factories were not profitable, technologically backward sh*t so no loss there. Also nb had knowledge and funds in those countries to restructuring them. You're just repeating myths eagerly supported by ruskies propaganda about "great USSR and its colonies". I'm from Poland and I tell it's a bullsh8t and EU together with NATO was the best thing that happened to Poland in its 1000 years of history. We were never so rich and safe and we never had such prspects for development, both personal and as a country (to rule EU together with Germany and France as Weimar Triangle, it's already happening:)).That's all.
@@aga-ja6855Maybe in your country they didn’t been profitable. Which I highly doubt when the only reason given are always from the western side. Every industry need re-technologies all the time if you didn’t know that. Even the western ones are upgraded all the time. Because technology evolves. Even 10-15 years now and it can be considered “outdated. Communism can be generally blamed fairly for many things but evolution of technology can’t be one of them. But what are you exactly producing now in Poland?! 😂
Because your country is full of Auchan, Carrefour, Lidl, Kaufland etc. Not even Zabka or Biedronka is Polish anymore. The only benefits vs Eastern neighbors your country had is the upgraded infrastructure (highways and railways to some extent) but only because Germoney need to export fast their good further to Europe. But when it comes to bigger infrastructure projects even Poland is denied evolution. Ex. the airport hub that Poland is trying to build for years and is blocked by German interest as “not feasible”, not good enough, waste of money etc. in reality that project will shift all the money from Germoney to Poland and will establish even more influence from Poland. Also most the EU funds in Poland have been used again by western corporations in infrastructure projects (“big surprise” since EU previously make sure the local polish companies who could create competition to the westerners are dismantled under different pretexts.)
I won’t even start to comment on NATO. But things aside, Poland is also just a colony of EU/US interest just as most of central Eastern Europe from EU (exception for moment being Hungary) and not a fully independent country. And if that sits ok with you, then never mind. If changing masters (from Soviet Russia influence and Warsaw pact states) to another ones in form of US/EU is maximum you can think of then is no discussion longer.
The EU is doomed.
God bless Russia we are with you all the way 🇮🇳♥🇷🇺
Losers stick together and it is easy to be naive if you have no common border with Russia.
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So you like inflation and war?
@@SV-yf4et and he probably like sh8tting outside and no running water at home like ca 40 milion ruskies XD maybe he feels culturally closeXD
Bog blyat ruSSia!
As always not once have you mentioned Romania or Bulgaria in your EU. Cyprus, Greece also left behind consistently. I AM SO SICK AND TIRED TREATING US AS SECOND CLASS CITIZENS IN EUROPE.
It is about countries which joined in 2004, 20 years ago. Both Romania and Bulgarian joined a few years later.
You didn't join in 2004, the programme was about the first enlargement. I mean you should know this.
The fact is when WW2 happened a lot of Jews took shelter in Russia and also a lot of German Russians moved to Germany, so all these people owe their lives to the great Russian motherland who nurtured them.
USSR invaded Poland 17 days after Germany and held joined victory parade. USSR and Germany were allies till 1941.
@@Blanka1100 go fix pipes and dig ditches in GermanY
@@Shamansdurx that's the job of your comrades from RU XD