Why do some countries not want to join the EU?
The second kind is are the Eastern European countries that have difficulty agreeing with the EU on a few ideology issues such as control and higher government and because they are still emerging nations they are not ready to turn their sovereignty to this higher level. Many of the EU’s strict regulations placed on the countries are directed to ensure that the involved countries become dependent on the EU and wouldn’t be able to make it if they ever wanted to withdraw from the EU. Just in case another nation such as Russia created a band of nations that offered a different more appealing union for them to join into to make themselves a sort of “super-nation” that can monopolize the market and trade. This would make Russia an “untouchable” empire that would be able to wage war and control market prices on many resources that they control. The EU has a valid point in ensuring that no nation get to large, although there are some nations that are reluctant to join the EU because of the cont