Against the background of an increasingly complicated internal metabolism of the EU -- with many EU citizens voicing their fears about including relatively poor European countries and thus, the subsequent redistribution policies -- political realities are forcing Balkan countries to try to "pull themselves by their bootstraps" economically, and show some signs of local economic strength.
Okolnosti im ne idu u prilog: interni metabolizam EU sve je komplikovaniji -- mnogi građani EU strahuju od uključenja relativno siromašnih evropskih zemalja i politike redistribucije bogatstva koja bi zbog toga mogla da usledi -- što znači da politička realnost primorava balkanske zemlje da «zasuku rukave i stegnu kaiš» i pokažu znake lokalne ekonomske snage.