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This is one of many rifts between EE and the EU. Poland, Czech, Hungary in particular have set courses that are not aligned with the EU. When the EU was founded, the threat of invasion from Russia was a recent memory and joining the EU made sense for these countries. A generation later, it makes much less sense. Some sort of Central European federation instead of the EU makes a lot more sense for them, but of course the EU would never want to give up that much power.