๐Ÿ’™ 20 years.
๐Ÿ’™ 10 countries.
๐Ÿ’™ 1 enlargement.

On 1 May 2004, the citizens of ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡พ ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฟ ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ช ๐Ÿ‡ญ๐Ÿ‡บ ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ฒ๐Ÿ‡น ๐Ÿ‡ต๐Ÿ‡ฑ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฐ ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ‡ฎ became citizens of the EU.

Since then, we have witnessed growth and prosperity. Real wages have doubled from 2004 to 2023 in these ten countries, while poverty levels have halved.

Our Union has benefitted from more innovations. The free movement of goods, services, capital and people, have brought greater opportunities for people and businesses.

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collectifission

@EU_Commission Hungary has proven to be quite the trojan horse ๐Ÿ™„

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/@SomeAnoTooter@mastodon.online

@EU_Commission and sadly some of those, a minority, want to damage Europe while promoting dictatorships that stand in contrast to European values. We have to think about mechanisms, that can protect our democracies and freedoms against such bad actors from within. We have yet to go a long and tough way. We can make it even better, but it won't be easy.

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Didzis ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡ป๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

@EU_Commission Thank you for welcoming us! This literally changed my life. I was lucky enough to get hired by a fantastic global company in July 2004 โ€” largely due to the fact that #Latvia had become a member of the #EU ๐Ÿ’™ This meant it was easier for me to go on business trips (to HQ of the said company and also visit colleagues in other countries for knowledge-sharing). (1/2)

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supernova

@EU_Commission glad to have all of them with me. All the issues aside (an i know there are many) I can feel the spirit of a united Europe in my bones. After 2000 years of constant war, this is the best chance we have for a bit of peace and friendship in our small corner of the world.
I personally felt broken when UK left. So I know I would miss any single country of our union. โค๏ธ
In the end it is about the magnificent individuals, right?

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/@SomeAnoTooter@mastodon.online

@thebluemarble (post was removed?) @EU_Commission no completely wrong. You seem to be a bad actor, knowingly or not, trying some overexaggeration to spread dissension and with this supporting divide and conquer schemes of dictatorships like Russia: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Founda
Yes I mean every bad actor but not simpleton "a countries" fault. Neoliberalism is a danger but voting someone because of friendship to dictatorial Russia is not a mistake.

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RolingMetal

@EU_Commission Yeah, that's all very nice. But perhaps we should talk about all the corruption in the European Parliament :)

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MegatronicThronBanks

@EU_Commission Democracies are orders of magnitude stronger than dictatorships.

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Darrien Glasser

@EU_Commission when can the US become part of the EU

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