(Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies) Uzi Eilam - On May 1, 2004, the fifteen-member European Union will be joined by another ten states that have a combined population of 74 million. Eight belonged to the former Eastern bloc - Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia - plus Cyprus and Malta. This follows NATO's decision to invite seven countries from the former Eastern bloc to join the organization. Can Israel aid the countries joining NATO and the EU in their attempts to reach a higher technological-industrial status? Such aid, if successful, can in turn help Israel acquire the status of a desirable partner of the expanded European Union.
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