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Mike Champion's avatar

Another great update on current affairs. Thanks David. I read your prior post about the farmer's dilemma. Seems to me that the government will finally allow grain exports when transport trucks can't use the roads due to the heat...

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Currently reading Robert D. Kaplan's Adriatic, and came across this quote from a former Croatian foreign minister Vesna Pusić: "The long process of joining the EU was better than membership itself. The process forced us to aspire to liberal democratic values. But once we were admitted to the EU we put membership in our pocket, so to speak, and reverted to our old ways." (Croatia was admitted in 2013; Kaplan notes that the EU was becoming less idealistic and more bureaucratic/political by then and of course, now it's worse.)

Moldova can get some good work done with official Candidacy. It'll be interesting to follow Ms. Dragalin with her hands-on experience in the fully-functioning anti-corruption infrastructure of California.

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