There is another big problem with this game: the behaviour of old EU members.

这场博弈还有另一个大难题：欧盟旧成员国的行为。

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The economies of several old EU members, notably Germany and Austria, have gained massively from enlargement—making their hostility especially perverse.

一些老牌欧盟成员国的经济，尤其是德国和奥地利，在此次东扩中获利颇丰-使得他们对待新成员国的所表现出来的敌意更加不通情理。

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After years of exploiting differences between old and new members of the European Union, Vladimir Putin, Russia’s prime minister, has realised that EU solidarity is more than mere rhetoric.

经过了数年来对新老欧盟之间区别的研究，俄罗斯首相普京已经意识到，欧盟的团结不仅是一席空话。

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At the summit, this issue ultimately boiled down to whether Turkey would agree to extend its customs agreement with the old EU the so-called Ankara agreement to cover the ten newest EU members, including Cyprus.

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The BBC's Dominic Hughes in Brussels says Russia's brief but violent war with Georgia still casts a shadow over relations with the EU, particularly those newer members from the old communist bloc.

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Under the old rules, if a government could have been fined for breaching the 3% deficit limit if a majority of EU members voted to do so.

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