Moldova is an economic basket case so it can't be attractive for EU membership--but most of the people speak Romanian and it was part of Romania until Stalin annexed it in 1940. So if Romania is in, why does it remain permanently out?
I read something a while back claiming that within Romania there is still a noticeable difference between the areas that were part of Austria-Hungary and those which were under Ottoman suzereignty.
Turkey did a lot of damage no doubt, but Greece has been free for close to 200 years. Something else must be at play:
“The culture of the Orthodox Church differs sharply from the Western post-Enlightenment ethos, which emphasizes secularism, capitalism, and the primacy of the individual. It still maintains residual fears about the West that parallel in many ways current Muslim insecurities: fears of Western missionary proselytism, the perception of religion as a key vehicle for the protection and preservation of their own communities and culture, and a suspicion of the „corrupted‰ and imperial character of the West. Indeed, in an Orthodox Christian Middle East, Moscow would enjoy special influence, even today, as the last major center of Eastern Orthodoxy. The Orthodox world would have remained a key geopolitical arena of East-West rivalry in the Cold War. Samuel Huntington, after all, included the Orthodox Christian world among several civilizations embroiled in a cultural clash with the West. “