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Economic Development Slower in Ex-Soviet Areas Resisting Change 01/20/2007 - 14:58 / US Department of StateSeventeen years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, liberal, free market democracies have firmly taken root in Central and Eastern Europe, including in the Baltic States of the former Soviet Union. The Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia are all members of the European Union, which Romania and Bulgaria also joined on January 1, 2007. While EU membership demonstrates international recognition of the region's monumental transformation, the trade liberalization that was a critical part of the accession process will have an even greater impact on the well-being of the region's population over the long term.
In contrast, the former Soviet states of Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine, geographically the most western of the non-EU members of the former Soviet Union, have not adopted trade-liberalizing policies to the same extent, and thus they have not reaped the same rewards.
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