The European Union is the Greatest Economy in the World. Will USA catch up?

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Lolcislaw said:
Wow, the problem is that European Union is not working as a single economy, this organisation obviously ties those economies yet there are so many differences beetween nations states no once could consider EU as a single economy. It is. The Four Freedoms are already 'active' and functioning.

• The free movement of goods;
• The free movement of persons (and citizenship), including free movement of workers, and freedom of establishment;
• The free movement of services;
• The free movement of capital.

The European Central Bank in Frankfurt is responsible for monetary policy covering the 16 member States of the Eurozone.

To name a few (cause its alte):

-Euro is only a currency in 16 nation states More nations soon to come.
-There is a huge economic difference beetween states from Former Eastern Bloc (Poland , Hungary, Latvia) and those from the "old" Europe; France, UK or Germany That is the current situation, yes?
All those countries benefit differently from common agricultural policy for example
-There is a single market, but there is stiff competition within it. That's good.

Plus Europe will never become Unified like the United States, (We don't want to) i think it is a bit naive to believe in it. Too many cultural, language, ethnic and historical differences have been beetween the countries, and still are. Plus i dont think that majority of us Europeans would like any more unified Europe (european parliament does not really exert much influence on Goverments, They do! it has authority but rarely uses it). Constitution was rejected recently as well.

European Union is not doing as well as some people might think. Wrong. It's quite the opposite really!