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Originally Posted by mapuc
Europe is not like the USA, Europe consist of independent countries Like Germany, France, Denmark a.s.o. Each of them with their own flag and national hymn.
The Question should be-In which European country will Civil war start and which European country will follow?
Otherwise you're right, in some, if not many European countries the prospect of a civil war is high.
Markus
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Our states have their own hymns and flags too.
Id contend the European Union is quite similar to the characteristics of the U.S. Federal Government.
It shares most features of what the literature defines as a federation:
It has at least two orders of government, each existing under its own right and exercises direct influence on the people.
European Treaties allocate jurisdiction and resources to these two main orders of government.
There are provisions for `shared government' in areas where the jurisdiction of the EU and the Member States overlap.
Community law enjoys supremacy over national law, it is the law of the land (Bundesrecht bricht Landesrecht).
European legislation is increasingly made by majority decision obliging individual Member States against their will.
At the same time, the composition and procedures of the European institutions are based not solely on principles of majoritarian representation, but guarantee the representation of `minority' views.
The European Court of Justice serves as an umpire to adjudicate conflicts between the European institutions and the Member States. And finally, the EU has a directly elected parliament (since 1979).
The EU only lacks a few significant features of a federation.
First, the Member States remain the ‘masters' of the treaties, i.e., they have the exclusive power to amend or change the constitutive treaties of the EU.
Second, the EU lacks a real `tax and spend' capacity, in other words, there is no fiscal federalism.
Third E.U. member States may leave the Union whereas over here once you join the Union there is no turning back, you are in it for life.
On a side note contrary to the anonymous clickbait, I don’t think there is any prospect for civil it’s not even a blip on the RADAR screen in the E.U. or U.S. However I would agree according to Michael Morell terrorism is the current primary threat to our both our nations security.