EU 'should expand beyond Europe' ...

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Originally Posted by mrbeast

[...]Plus in a world where we are surounded by economic and political giants whats better a motley crew of squabling countries or a union of nations?

Exactly!
I would even go so far to say that the European Union -apart from all its weaknesses- is our only chance of survival. It forms our countries and its 500 million inhabitants into the mightiest ecomical power on this world in a way that cannot be ignored.

Personally i would like to see a common EU foreign policy and also a European Army one day - while retaining our national identities and languages, this is no contradiction in my eyes.