EU President: EU is the new Soviet Union

[SamuelRSmith]

im_sneaky said:

non-gravity said:

im_sneaky said:
I want to see how the EU turns out. Will they continue to meld together, to form an economic superpower? Or will they remain simply a collection of countries? Europe's day, the times of English, French, Spanish, Dutch, imperial powers is gone. Their populations aren't increasing fast enough, and they can't keep up with the US and China.

 

 The world has no need for increasing populations. The US is not in particular great shape at the moment. And China is not even close to the Almighty United States of Europe

 

There's only so much money you can have if your pop is 60m. If that stays relatively the same, you can count on slow growth from increasing efficiency. But when China is quickly catching up [though still oh so far away] in efficiency, and the USA is growing quickly due to immigration, West Europe is falling behind.

 

The EU's population is nearly 200 million greater than the US's. Although Western nations may only see slow growth from now on, the Eastern nations will see absolutely massive growth - as they have been since they joined the EU.

Also, when Turkey does eventually become a full member of the EU, that's a whole load of people and resources being mixed into the EU economy.