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Kai Master on 17 January 2008
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Game_boy said:
Kai Master said:
"(although I do wish ioi would promote Europe to a category of her own, rather than lumping us up in Others. what kind of a Briton is he, really?)"

+1

This "Others" category just makes me sick! This is like using this term to qualify the sates of USA : Mexico, Canada and "others" (USA) (would you like that, American people?) You have to relize that EU-27 is a United States of Europe (USE) of 27 members (at the end of the construction it is going to be circa 50 states like in the USA).

-1 to VGC! lol

 

That's not what the EU is at all! I agree that America, Japan, Europe and Others should be seperate because Europe is bigger than Japan, but the EU is a loose common policy on immigration, human rights, markets, competition regulation and currency (but none of those are really compulsory: the UK is included in neither the Euro or the more open borders) and each country retains practically all of its pre-membership power.The EU cannot in practice force any decision over a dissenting member.

So, the EU is not a US arrangement and never will be (look at the Consititution rejection; all that did was have an EU President and a few more market controls).

The EU physically can't hold any more Eastern members at this point without damaging the Euro's integrity and leading to uneven treatment for the poorer and less stable governments in the candidate countries.

The EU is stronger by being together, yes (the Euro is supplanting the U.S. Dollar as the worldwide base currency) but it will never be one country.


 "The EU cannot in practice force any decision over a dissenting member." yes and no, the comission can rule a salty penalty for countries that do not follow the rules, the EU is more and more influantianal and powerful, the construction is not over and in the end we will finish to be like the USA with one president, etc. I'm sure of it. And VGC should consider europe as a single market for the sales data so that in the future when the EU is complete that would be easier to compare data from past to present. (ok it might take 20 years to complete the EU and become the USE).

"but it will never be one country."  I think it will, even though there still would be several languages unlike USA.