EASTERN EUROPE THINK PIECE
November 1st, 2001
BY KEITH NUTHALLCYNICS may look at the hastening political process of allowing eastern European countries, and their large agricultural sectors, into the European Union, and ask, 'what's in it for us?'It's a good question given that the 10 countries that are at the front of the membership queue, (with the tiny exceptions of Malta and Cyprus), are hardly wealthy. When food exporters plan their strategies to tap lucrative populous markets, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia, do not usually spring into mind. So ...
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