Timeline for Why doesn't Russia join the European Union?
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| Jul 28, 2021 at 10:29 | comment | added | MishaP | @Anixx The majority of countries that joined the EU, have become labor, consumers, and tourist attractions for 'core' EU countries, but they haven't received enough investment in industry, to replace the production they had to scrap in order to join. As a result, many of EU's members have serious political and economic turmoil, and the only solution they've decided to use is to blame it all on Russia. It's worth noting, that while gender minorities get lots of hype in EU, there's plenty of legal actions being taken against ethnic Russians and Russian culture that get swept under the rug. | |
| Sep 7, 2019 at 15:01 | history | edited | Stormblessed | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 4, 2018 at 20:51 | comment | added | RedGrittyBrick | @Bregalad: Russia in the EU would have a lot of influence (140M pop vs 508M current members) but would be far from a majority. also in the EU parliament "The seats are distributed according to "degressive proportionality", i.e., the larger the state, the more citizens are represented per MEP.". There is also a maximum cap on MEPs per state. Finally Russia's GDP is half that of France. | |
| Aug 15, 2017 at 12:39 | comment | added | user | @SleepingGod en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… may provide a starting point. You will currently find Russia as #134. Compare that to Poland (#52) or Romania (#61), which at a glance appear to be the lowest-ranked EU countries. | |
| Jul 2, 2017 at 1:15 | comment | added | SleepingGod | What "democracy as the EU understands it" doesn't Russia satisfy? | |
| Apr 10, 2017 at 13:52 | comment | added | liftarn | Note that RAF built it's buses on GAZ (from Russia) chassis so... | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 11:44 | comment | added | Pyritie | @Joze they're separate issues | |
| Jul 22, 2015 at 10:15 | comment | added | Jose Luis | "gay and human rights" Are gays not human? | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 12:05 | comment | added | Anixx | @BROY this does not matter. RAF went bankrupt because it could not withstand competition (Latvia opened its market to the EU at the time). After joining the EU competition only increases, and also any protectionist measures and government help are forbidden removing any hope for restoring. Till 2004 they still had all the production lines in order so that they could start production at any moment. | |
| Jun 27, 2015 at 9:59 | comment | added | user4514 | @Anixx , Just now I discovered that your information about 'RAF Autobus" is absolutely wrong. Latvia joined the EU on 1 May 2004. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/… . But, RAF went bankrupt in 1998. kommersant.com/tree.asp?rubric=2&node=22&doc_id=345742 | |
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| Jun 19, 2015 at 18:38 | comment | added | Anixx | @Bregalad Russia has about 145 million population. | |
| Jun 19, 2015 at 5:40 | comment | added | Relaxed | You could still argue it's somehow EU-related because many adjustments had to be made beforehand (although that's debatable) but I am pretty sure that, e.g., Bulgaria did not really lost that much after joining. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 21:35 | comment | added | Bregalad | Also, Russia has 120 million population and such a huge territory that it'd become the leader of the EU if it joined (also see the question, why doesn't Turkey join the EU). Also "gay rights" isn't really an EU value, just minority rights in general. Putin uses homophobia as part of his propaganda to say "look those guys are gays", this is of course wrong. | |
| Jun 18, 2015 at 16:47 | history | edited | yannis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
The question was updated to be only about EU membership, thus I'm removing the NATO part from your answer.
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 15:36 | history | edited | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 18, 2015 at 15:10 | history | answered | Anixx | CC BY-SA 3.0 |