I was yesterday in the second largest city in Croatia, it was one hour past the midnight and almost no one on the main square (where the official celebration was). Happiest people were politicians, regular people don't really care.
Today I was watching main informative news from national TV and whole damn news were about joining EU, 30 minutes showing smiling politicians, it's like PyongyangTV.
One really good thing is this travelling option, so a lot of people can visit other countries without usual troubles. Also, importing used cars from Germany should be cheaper.
Croatia has extremely retarded politicians who don't like open market and they put new regulations every day. Latest example:
They require merchants from fish markets to impose some fiscalisation so when the fisherman sells you some cheap fish (2 €/kg), it must go through the computer so the Sauron's eye can see it. Problems are:
-fiscalisation is expensive (buying the computer, teaching old people how to use them etc.)
- markets are really dynamic and messy (h ttp://photos.wikimapia.org/p/00/01/78/40/52_big.jpg)
- price of fish is not the same in 8 am and 11 am - prices drop because sun and heat makes the fish less valuable and you can't make the change in computer.
So, now many people will loose jobs and go to the job bureau and end up needing some social help.
Whole EU is increasing regulations and creating incentives for people not to work and earn. EU will break apart, that's for sure.