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Originally Posted by DarkFish
the EU starts to look more and more like the United States of Europe 
cooperation between the European countries is good, but the EU just keeps getting more and more power. |
Indeed, but that is a conflict that is very old. The ojne camps wanted to stay with a union of economically cooperating sovereign nations, while the other camp always wanted to abandon national sovereignity and repalace it with something like a European superstate. The latter camp won in momentum in the past 20 years, let's say: since the end of the cold war and German reunification - and with the disastrous results we have today.
It is an articial, unnatural enforcement of a pseudo-unity
and uniformity that people simply do not want to have in europe. As a Dutch guest commentator in a German paper yesterday or the day before wrote: why should I sympathise with the idea of a union and a constitution that no person in europe can read in orfignal labguage, becasue it is not set down in one binding version, in one binding origianl langauge, but two dozens that all show variances in details? Why amd I expected to feel soldiartiy with people in Spain when they mismanage their economy, while I live in Northern Europe? why is there even the idea that such "soldiarity" could be expected to show up between total strangers with totally different living styles, national and social surrounding, who never met?
Europe means not only a canon of more or lsess shared values and hostirc traditons. It also means polenty od differences that also are historically founded, and may make a lot of sense on the regional level.
But some starry-eyed bureaucrats dream of a superstate instead. Et voilá, there we are.
Greece, btw, continues to order weapoins and military items like crazy, I just read. They have the money from the Greek bailout now, and 750 billion more are waiting to be consumed by some southern countries, so why starting to save money? They did not pay for fourt subamrines they had ordered, now haver ordered additonal two subs, plus more tanks - and the Eurofighter, that one they want as well, of course.
so much for consolidating their finances. and the Germans? Rumour says that the Germans even have pressed the Greek to order more weapons, and to pay for the already ordered ones.
It's all so sick and rotten an economy.
Wowh. I'm hijacking my own thread.
