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Originally Posted by Iliak
Why do Americans have this habit of comparing the EU to the US? It doesn't make sense at all. The EU has evolved from EEC to EC to EU; it is built on different treaties or small steps at a time (i.e. Schumann declaration). Comparison is simply out of the question. The EU may be very close to consolidation with the enlargement and all plus states might not want to give away any more autonomy. For us living in Europe (i.e. having a clue at all), we know that the EU plays a huge role in our daily lives, but it is still "unity in diversity" meaning that the EU is not a nation-state, and it will never be. There isn't anything as a "European identity." There are German, French, Dutch, Finnish etc. identities, nation-states and so on.
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I am sorry you seemed to be resp0nding to a series of posts between Walaroo and myself where the issue was a comparison on at least one level between the US and EU. I am very familiar with the EU. WHile it is not a super state at the moment, and won't be for the near or fairly far future, there are those prominent voices that call for that to be the ultimate end game. Frankly there are a number of simularities between the EU and US, more than you think. Moreover if the EU does form into a more cohesive political unit, I suggest the federal makeup of the SU is what is in store for you. A federal government with some powers and state governments with their own sets of powers. Our federal government was never supposed to be as strong as it is either, it just kind of evolved that way over the past 200 years.