I'm from Estonia and my opinion is that although EU gives us a decent ammount of money for (as previously mentioned) building roads, healthcare etc. It also makes our country less independent, all these new EU [cabbage] laws and directives + few years we had to start giving out the new RED passports, if anyone has at least a vague idea of Soviet Union, they'll know what did Soviet passport look like. So I guess we're back in somekind of union again, only the name has changed. (ofcourse, SU and EU are not really compareable, but they might be soon)