From Ukraine to Albania, countries on the fringes of the European Union are assessing how Brexit will affect their long and often painful efforts to join it. Through the fall of communism in central Europe, the collapse of the Soviet Union and the wars across crumbling Yugoslavia, EU accession has served as a precious shared goal and catalyst for peace and progress.
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People pose kissing each other in a kiss chain holding EU and Union flags organised by pro-Europe 'remain' campaigners in front of the Houses of Parliament in central London on June 19, 2016.
