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Even former Eastern Germany still has areas with poverty even though German reunification was close to twice that long ago.
Now I am not saying everything in that process went as well as one could have hoped for, far from it in fact, but it serves as a point of comparison for what can be expected under real world circumstances that was available around the time those countries made their decision to join the EU.