Kasz216 on 11 April 2009
| SamuelRSmith said: Many proposals have opt-out clauses, and a member can leave whenever it so wishes (which they can't, because it'd be economical suicide and foreign policy suicide, as well as losing a large proportion of the electorate's support). There's also several key differences between what I'm suggesting, and what your example is. After all, the European nations are all much closer on a social, economical and political sense than the US and Cuba, and one EU members population doesn't dwarf the rest. What I'm trying to say here is that the views from someone in France is similar to that as someone in the UK, which is similar to someone in Germany. There will be differences, of course, but those differences are no where near as big as the differences in views between someone in the US and someone from Cuba. What's more, it's more democratic than what is really happening. Where the rest of the EU states have ignored RoI's "no" vote and are ratifying everything they can now, and are waiting for RoI to just "change it's mind". |
Regardless.... I mean nothing in your proposal currently prevents say... the entire EU but Ireland voting on repossessing all the food or some other resource of ireland for the good of the rest of the EU.
Etc.
There are a lot of differences still there at the moment.
As long as a country can opt out at any time... there should be no problem. Though I can't help but think the first time countries want to opt out we'll end up repeating history. With the EU playing the part of Civil War America.
Tough thing really international alliances aiming to unite. Much easier to break apart.
