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Originally Posted by ausa999";p="
The EU has recently enlarged to become a global player. This gave the EU some totally new traditions from now on. I'd like to gain some conceptual understanding about a few EU rules on this.
1. Why did the EU force some of the new EU members such as Slovakia and Hungary to re-accept their national borders? These borders are known to widely deviate from ethnic boundaries, locking Slovaks out into the Ukraine and Hungarians out into Slovakia.
2. The South-East European borders are defined by 20th century "peace" dictates from external super-powers, for the purpose of maintaining deep ethnic tensions. What interest does the EU have in maintaining this status quo?
3. How would the EU react if an EU ethnicity wanted to beak from its host country and re-join its mother country at the other side of the border, changing the border?
Thanks.
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The ethnic issues and the issues concerning the national borders are some of the most difficult problems of the international politics.. I suppose, that the Europe have the following ways to respond to these problems:
1. Guaranteeing just and efficient governance.. This means guaranteeing that opression against ethnic groups will not happen.. Reducing the reasons to complain about the local goverment's governing reduces naturally the separatistic desires..
2. Setting the focus on inter-European cooperation instead of natiolistic interests of different ethnicities and states.. If people learn to consider them Europeans, their relations with other Europeans will be much more defined in the terms of cooperation instead of rivalry..
Also, if there are some artifical borders that are not viable, I wonder why we should maintain these borders.. This is a difficult issue, since it concerns national pride and national emotions.. Still, it is highly questionable, if any amount of pride can justify such artifical states that are only good in producing ethnic problems..
- BtD