New EU states more disciplined than old

The Eastern European EU member states are the model pupils regarding budgetary discipline nowadays although the Western members had feared the contrary during the EU expansion. But Europe now threatens to go bankrupt because of its old members, the left-liberal daily Dnevnik observes: "The fear that we would destroy Europe, demolish the euro and raid the structural aid fund was great. The only question was whether the culprit would be Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Hungary or Slovenia. This is why Brussels stipulated such tough conditions for our EU membership. Disciplined and obediently we fulfilled all the conditions. We, the citizens of the new EU states, are the most disciplined Europeans, frantically battling to balance our budgets even against our own interests. Meanwhile Greece and the Italians are driving the EU crazy with the aid of German and French banks. ... So it's the old member states who have brought Europe to the brink of bankruptcy."

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