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After 1991 Estonia remained on a steady course to join the EU and NATO. The almost idolatrous admiration for all things Western has nonetheless given way to a more critical approach, not least because the domestic bureaucracy has tended to cite 'Euro-norms' as justification for various imprudent decisions.
Having once learned the hard way about the dangers of international isolation, the majority of Estonians view international co-operation as offering the best guarantee for security. Nevertheless, not even the greatest optimists of the early 1990s could have predicted that in April 2004, even before joining the EU, Estonia would become a full member of NATO.
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