Today's worker [in Hungary] wants to become part of the middle class, to own a car and a weekend cottage in the country. "That's what I want," says Gábor Szabó, a young welder, "to become a European." ––Tad Szulc, "Dispatches from Eastern Europe," National Geographic, March 1991

After eastern Europe broke away from the Soviet Union, workers in Hungary and other eastern European countries hoped to
a.
share the prosperity of western Europeans.
b.
join the European Union.
c.
share the culture of western Europeans.
d.
change jobs.