WHICH IS WHY THEY SHOULD HAVE JOINED NAFTA INSTEAD:

'New' Europeans Work the Longest Hours (Business Week, 9/05/08)

The report, which analyzed statistical data from all of the EU member countries, found that the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU spend an average of 39. 5 hours a week on the job, while people in the 12 new member states work 40.6 hours on average. Of the top 10 countries, seven—Bulgaria, Romania, the Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Latvia and Hungary—joined the EU after 2004.

Western Europeans aren't all slackers—the UK ranked third on the list, and Austria and Germany were both in the top ten. At the bottom of the list was France, where workers put in a not-so-grueling 37.7 hours a week.