but Russia is opposing that move because oftheir xenophobic fears. This poses an new question for the world; Are thesatellite countries of the former Soviet Union truly sovereign states or arethey still puppet states controlled by Russia? The view today has to differentsides: the European, who are willing to accept Warsaw Pact states into NATO andthe E.U. given they meet the requirements; And the U.S. policy which is againstany expansion of NATO or the E.U. into the countries in question.The European Union? The European Union is the name of the organization for the countriesthat have decided to co-operate on a great number of areas, ranging from asingle market economy, foreign policy's, same sets of environmental laws, mutual recognition of school diplomas, to exchange of criminal records are among the few (The E.U. is roughly similar in working to the United States of America. The states being Countries and the U.S. the E.U.) The E.U. currently includes15 countries and has 11 official languages, and many more internal ones. E.U.has noted , however, that
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