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>An EU of economically incompetent countries, maybe. I'm shaking in my boots!

Well, as far as Cuba is concerned, it's hard to know how they'd have fared without the eternal U.S. embargo. They might still have had a dismal economy, but let's face it, the U.S. did have a hand in it.