That's a great premise in theory, but what real reason would the USA have to fear a United Europe? If anything a United Europe would be greatly beneficial to the USA in many ways.

A poster above also mentioned how the USA actually badgered the EU to add members to its collective; doesn't that action run counter to your supposition of the USA's fears/intentions?

Actually, I'm starting to realise that EU is not the way to go for our continent. I think we should have a unified military and to some extent economy, but as a whole, the different regions are really too different to actually unify in more than a superficial way.

I REALLY don't want any other country to have influence in swedish politics, I'm quite satisfied with our country the way it is. And I'm certain most inhabitants of other countries think this about their respective countries aswell.

The only thing I think would work would be a more unified Scandinavia. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland and Finland essentially work the same way, and we certainly could use this to gain a bigger competative edge against the rest of the world.

the eu is aready a international player and in some fields it has more powers then the usa, a few month ago i was listening to a podcast on line about a united europe by a american proffesor he siad that the eu can stop american companies taking over other american companies and this has already happen so the eu has more power than the usa already (i'll get the link asap)

USA wouldnt have anything to fear from EU in principle.But ,those who have the power and that take the decisions always fear losing that power and that capacity to take the decisions by themselves.As an example USA may allow UE countries to use the GPS system for military purposes ,but they like and want to have the decission in allowing it or not ...it gives them information ,influence ,power ,gains some favours ....but when the Eu develops their own satellite system (even more advanced ) named Galileo  and doesnt need anymore the GPS system for they potential needs (including military ones ) the US has been very vocal against it and pressionated all the ways it could to avoid this to happen .Those who have the power and who take decisions doesnt want that removed from them .

And USA has badgered the EU into admiting members faster that expected just because some of those members (as Poland ) are more akin to USA than to other european countries .Those countries having now the capacity to vote in Brussels means the US has gained some influence over the votations held there.Thats one of the main reasons why US insist so strongly for the UE to admit Turkey in it ,as Turkey is a very big country with a special and long bond with the US and could use it to block decisions from Brussells if those were against what they perceived their interests .As you see ,everything has a good explanation .

A good response.

As much as I'd love to start a debate somewhere in this thread, I acknowledged in my first post that my knowledge of the EU is insufficient for it and sadly that has yet to change.

Thanks for the reply.

Wojtas:

@Final-Fan: I agree about China's and their errors in the past (they make errors still like banning Wikipedia for example) however I don't agree that Hongkong had much to do with it, China was growing before taking over of Hongkong. Also it's a little territory. There live around 7mln people as opposed to 1.3 bln living in China so it wasn't even possible to save China by Hongkong. I agree that there are lot more of capitalism freedom in China than it used to be but this doesn't change the fact that China is still considered a communist counry as there are no strict rules as wheter a country is communist or not (and many left-winged people do not consider any of existing of former communist countres as a true communist).

EU is the best thing that could have happened to Europe from an economic standpoint, in fact integration of Europe should continue

As an "US American" I'd be more then happy for the EU to be the number one power in the world.  It's a pain in the ass to be the "number one power" in the world and acknowledged as such, because every crackpot positions himself against you.  

It's not like the USA and EU are in anyway enemies or something or would go over blows over anything in our lifetime.  America needs a freaking break from being the perceived "top dog" so a lot of people can stop worrying about maintaining "Top Dog" status and start worrying about fixing problems in the country.  As long as they stay an important part of the world economy who cares if the US is number one?  They stay important enough and other countries will continue to foot the bill on the US's insane economic polices.  Maybe fear of them not being number 1 will convince polititans that it's infact not a good idea to spend more money then you take in.  The republicans used to be against that kind of thing, but now with Neo-cons in control both sides seem to want to spend money like trust fund kids.

Turkey needs to stay out of the EU though.   They're way to different to make it work now in my opinion.