[DuncanIdaho]

Not everybody will return, but great deal many will. The fact is that these returning migrants are probably the best bet for increasing the welfare in the parent lands. Even if most of migrants do not return "home" - they still maintain connections with their birthplaces, thus indirectly (and indeed slowly) influencing the culture through osmosis.

>Yes, and it's not working. Even the leaders acknowledge that now. And before they get too comfortable they should remember Yugoslavia tried to do the same thing.

Hmm. Saying its not working is rash. It didn't work as well as optimists hoped for it also didn't works so bad as pessimists hoped for. What leaders are realizing now is not that EU integration isn't working. It's just that current approach is losing steam.

And one should note, that current approach was more of an amalgam of inertia and half assed attitudes than something coordinated and sincere.