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On a lighter note, consider this:

Montenegro will get

  • a slot of high payed civil servants at NATO, the EU institutions and agencies, UN and agencies,

  • numerous well payed auxilairy staff (drivers, gardeners, secretaries, concierges) at the foreign countries embassies and consulates in their capital,

  • a slot of MEPs and support and administrative  staff at the European Parliament and the Council,

  • additional income from printing and selling postal stamps,

  • the right to participate at the European Song Contest and to support the Serbian candidate at the  televoting.

OTOH the EU will also largely gain in prestige because - slowly but steadily - it will eventually have as many Member States as the US.  

With Scotland, Wales, Corsica, Sardegna, the Basque Countries and La Grande Padania - voila': We'll be in 51!

"The USA appears destined by fate to plague America with misery in the name of liberty." Simon Bolivar, Caracas, 1819

by Ritter on Mon May 22nd, 2006 at 07:23:45 PM EST
Heh, you really know how to spin everything for the better :-)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 10:25:50 AM EST
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