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Jason O'Rourke said:Olivier said:Quoted message said:What is your significance of the German/French failure to get an EU constitution?
European construction has never been an easy task.
You can do it quickly, like Napoleon or [censored] did before, or you can choose the slow,
democratic, way.I prefer the slow way.
Things were still pretty easy when we were 6, with close cultures and goals. But Europe is now
vitim of his success, and you cannot anymore make fast, efficient decisions when 25 people are
around the table, each with a veto power.So, backing up a bit, what is the motivation for the EU as one large supernation? Why not just
remove trade barriers and leave it at that?
The trade barriers were removed long ago. They aren't trying to build a supernation, just a
federation that functions more like the US with respect to proposing and passing legislation.
Quoted message said:I don't see Canada and the US merging any time remotely near. The Germans and French alone seem so
different culturally, and then you add all the rest.
But they aren't as different culturally as you think you see. Look at Quebec and the rest of Canada.
How is it they all see themselves as Canadian?
Quoted message said:It's definitely gotta be done slowly, or you start moving the other way, seen with the FSRs and
Yugoslavia.
I think it is all about voting power in the legislature.
martin
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