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> The gap between wealthy Northern countries such as Germany and less-well-off southern countries such as Greece, Portugal, or Spain has grown substantially.

Has it? Over what time period and by what measure?

At the time when the UK joined the EU in 1973, all three of those countries were military dictatorships!



<pedantic> Portugal was a dictatorship but not a military one. It was in fact the military that overthrew it.</pedantic>




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