Poland, a country that belongs to “New Europe,” is repaying the EU with a legitimacy that it had gained from Europe during its post-communist transition. And the entrance of Croatia, followed by Montenegro and a few other Balkan countries, could compensate for the departure of Greece (should it come to that for the Greeks).
第九个希望的理由来自欧盟新成员和准成员。作为“新欧洲”的成员，波兰在后共产主义转型中从欧洲获益良多，现在正在回馈欧洲以正统性。而克罗地亚的加入（继黑山和其他一些巴尔干国家之后）可以弥补希腊退出的缺憾（如果希腊真的退出的话）。