@fokker, don't keep on telling me what I allegedly don't understand, if you don't even understand what I describe here in great detail. I perfectly well understand what's happening in Eastern Europe and I also have a head start of several decades over you guys of intimate knowledge of the Anglosphere. Intimate knowledge has nothing to do with any phobia. It means that you are capable of judging the merits and demerits of something instead of viewing it through rose-tinted glasses.
The point here is that democracy and the functioning of the EU are new to you guys. You may have your own vision of what type of democracy or EU you want, but that doesn't mean that is even possible. Democracy has certain minimum requirements which many in the East don't accept. That doesn't mean they have a better form of democracy. It means they want to replace democracy with a type of autocracy, because they aren't used to democracy. Similarly, the EU is a consensus-driven elaborate organism that has grown over more than 60 years, most of which you have no idea about. Giving in to the new members would actually destroy the EU since the EU can't function the way they imagine it should. The proof is in the doing.
Even if you don't understand it, but the Germans have made great efforts to pamper Eastern Europeans in order to keep the EU together. Most in the EU, especially France, take a more sanguine view of this. But here it is, the real beauty of the EU, these approaches complement each other, they don't conflict with each other. Merkel's caution and Macron's impatiens complement each other. Macron can afford to kick arse without you guys starting to scream Nazi or Ribbentrop. That's how the EU can advance. If you don't want to follow, no problem, you can stay at the periphery without influence while core Europe moves ahead. The EU has the Advanced Cooperation provision, which allows 6 members to move ahead even if the rest doesn't want to follow. Alternately, you can chose to be f*cked in the behind by the Russians, Chinese, Yanks, or why not, the Turks, as is the eternal fate of the imperialist lackeys.