A thought-provoking Journal article.

Several weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal Europe published a thought-provoking article entitled "Estonia Should Join the EU, and Lead It" The article pointed out that Estonia would actually have to de-liberalise its economy to fit into the complex European Union. This raises the question: why is EU membership important for Estonia at all? Written by Tartu University Professor (also visiting scholar to the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London)Urmas Varblane and Dr Razeen Sally from the London School of Economics, the Journal article notedthat Estonia_s existing free trade agreements will need to be annulled, trade tariffs (currently non-existent) will need to be instituted and already burdensome bureaucracy will need to be multiplied to cover all the tasks required under the back-breaking acquis communautaire, the Bible of the European Union...