inari@piefed.zip to Europe@feddit.orgEnglish · edit-218 hours agoIt is time to build the United States of Europeelpais.comexternal-linkmessage-square41fedilinkarrow-up184arrow-down19
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minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down5·edit-214 hours agoEuropean history all is just conquests
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·13 hours ago…so there has not been an attempt like the EU
minus-squareCAVOK@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 hours agoThe Hansa was something of a proto-EU.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 hours agoThat’s an interesting comparison I hadn’t considered, but isn’t it more like the current EU than the hypothetical federalised EU under discussion?
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down6·13 hours agoThere has. The European Communities and the EEC. Neither were attempts to create a federation like US, China or Russia…
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·13 hours agoMate the EEC was one of the European Communities, and it ended because it became part of the EU. That’s not a separate attempt. That’s the same one.
minus-squaredeHaga@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down8·13 hours agoLol no. The treaties of Maastricht, Nice and Lisbon turned a trade bloc into a political one. That’s centralising power, and it always fails.
minus-squareSkua@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·13 hours ago “Lol no. Actually it was exactly what you said”
European history all is just conquests
…so there has not been an attempt like the EU
The Hansa was something of a proto-EU.
That’s an interesting comparison I hadn’t considered, but isn’t it more like the current EU than the hypothetical federalised EU under discussion?
There has. The European Communities and the EEC. Neither were attempts to create a federation like US, China or Russia…
Mate the EEC was one of the European Communities, and it ended because it became part of the EU. That’s not a separate attempt. That’s the same one.
Lol no. The treaties of Maastricht, Nice and Lisbon turned a trade bloc into a political one.
That’s centralising power, and it always fails.