Spain failed a long time ago... 20% unemployment, dead construction industry, rising yields on bonds... it's basically a case of politicians putting their fingers in their ears and going "lalalala". If Spain were to "fail" tomorrow, there would be no different in its economic state from today, it's just that the politicians would have finally accepted it... which will be when the yields become intolerable (for the Spanish... the quicker Spain fails, the better, as they won't be piling on more and more debt).

What's going to happen? The same thing that always happens in the EU... when the EU fails, the politicians always argue that it's because there's not enough EU. And so the EU will try to extend its leverage over its member states, particularly the Eurozone. The problem is that, the only reason the Euro exists today is that Germany (and to a lesser extent, France) are anchoring it... but if Germany keeps bailing people it, it, too will be in greater financial ruin.

The left really have been showing their ineptitude since the 2008 collapse. Their answer to broken debts was to create more debt, now that this debt is starting to fail, they turn around and just create even more of the stuff. The debt crisis didn't end with the banks... it just moved onto the Governments, and in this process, the inflationary pressures caused by all this debt have decimated the value of money and moved the wealth from the workers back to Wall Street. It's funny how the left's approach to dealing with the debt ended up harming the people who they're supposedly supposed to be representing. Obviously not their intention... but, that just shows how bad they are with money.

The EU already has a constitution, and has had one since it's inception as the ECSC. All institutions have constitutions, from countries and NGOs to corporations and even soccer organizations.

What you're asking for is for the EU to be able to limit its members from having certain freedoms. The EU was set up as an economic union (a bad one, at that), it already goes far beyond its original jurisdiction, we need less EU, not more.

Any kind of national socialistic thing is forbbiden by law here. And that includes logos, emblems, greetings, messages, flags books or anything related to National socialism. But I wouldnt call Germany an opressing country, besides that stupid law they have.

The purpose of the EU was to eventually become a federal republic, a sort of Switzerland on a bigger scale. That's what the people who founded it envisioned. That would be a great move to assure Europe's supremacy in the world, especially against the US. The EU's values would are certainly better than Hungary's values, so I don't think more Eu control would hurt at all.

But Israel gets unproportunate amounts if criticism already, that's why Germany should stay out of it.

Germany's extermination of 6 mill Jews made the Israelis the paranoid and anxious people they are now. And there's a whole world policing Israel already. Common curtesy tells Germany to stay silent for another while.

Why do we need Europe to have supremacy? Why would we need to be "against" the USA? Has the USA's reign of terror since the end of the Cold War been so terrible that we need to give up our sovereignty to beat them? On a relative scale, the past 20 years of US supremacy have been the most peaceful in hundreds of years. Bipolarity led to the Cold War, and multipolarity led to a) Imperalism, and b) 2 World Wars, and, up until recently, they've also been the most prosperous.

Europe should have supremacy because we live in it, and being #1 is best. We should be against the US, because we're not Americans, the US follows it's own interests, and we should follow our own. An unified Europe could be more powerful than the US, and it would be a shame never to realise that.

Yes, we should follow our own interest... but it's painstakingly obvious that our interest lies in being pro-USA. If it wasn't for the USA, most of Europe wouldn't exist, because it is in the USA's interest that we are their allies, and it is in our interest that the USA is on our side.

And being number #1 would be great, but it's not necessarily the best. If being number 1 means giving up sovereignty, giving up liberty, hell, giving up democracy, then it's not worth it.

I don't care if people are richer or better than me, as long as I'm doing pretty good myself.

Pft... not to mention being number 1 is a HUGE pain in the ass since everybody expects everything of you.

Note Libya with the "Help UN and US" even though the US has done everything they can to try and distance themselves from it.

Also the massive amount of money the US has to spend on the Military.  For Europe to be #1 you'd have to REALLY step up your military... as the US quite literally could be Europe in a war both conventional and non-convetnional.

Given the choice, hell I'd much rather the EU be #1 and spend all the money on "policing the world" and other bullshit, let them handle Libya and every other issue and spend all that money on the military and be the main focus of most the terrorists in the world.

American interests coincide more then enough with europe for that to be a better situation in my mind.

Yes, we should follow our own interest... but it's painstakingly obvious that our interest lies in being pro-USA. If it wasn't for the USA, most of Europe wouldn't exist, because it is in the USA's interest that we are their allies, and it is in our interest that the USA is on our side.

And being number #1 would be great, but it's not necessarily the best. If being number 1 means giving up sovereignty, giving up liberty, hell, giving up democracy, then it's not worth it.

I don't care if people are richer or better than me, as long as I'm doing pretty good myself.