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  One in 10 Britons welcome 'Luvania' to EU family
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Last EditedServo  Apr 29, 2004 12:21pm
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News DateThursday, April 29, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
DescriptionLONDON (AFP) - Around one in 10 people in Britain are looking forward to Luvania joining the European Union this weekend. That's right, Luvania.

Telcoms provider One.Tel invited participants in an marketing survey to identify the 10 EU accession nations -- and cheekily added fictional Luvania to the list as a red herring.

Eight percent of all 2,500 respondents plumped for the mythical country -- a proportion that went up to nine percent among Scots, and 11 percent among over-50s.
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