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Originally Posted by waste gate
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Originally Posted by Hitman
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I guess I don't understand. I thought Europe was made up of many countries each with its own democratically elected governments. Why is it necessary to impose an umbrella gov't over those that already exist?
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Errr well I thought the United States was made up of many states each with its own democratically elected governments. Why is it necessary to impose an umbrella gov't over those that already exist? 
Probably the answer is more or less the same....at a certain point it was felt that being bigger and more powerful was better...and someone had to organize that. Yet of course with the USA it was way easier, due to many historical and cultural reasons (And even so a civil war happened :hmm: )
Back to the topic: Poland is certainly one the nations who has had it more difficult in history: Being between the germans and the russians was really no pleasing situation in the past. But what the linked article says is plain and simply ridiculous. Hopefully, as Skybird says, these guys are not really representative of the polish people  |
Thanks Hitman. But don't European nations also have states/provinces/cantons/autonomous communities etc? Just seems like an extra umbrella gov't which is unnecessary and allows one set of countries to be in charge of another set. Seems to be an attempt to remove the governed from the process of government. Which ain't very democratic. I may have to side with the Poles and Brits on this one. |
That 'umbrella' could be usefull coping with coming economic giants (China, India, perhaps Brazil ), or even the US?
