Depends on where you draw the line of “sovereign”. You can’t really have, for example, an independent military in any reasonable way if you’re, idk, Belgium. But there is a sliding scale. The US, for example, is in theory just a highly integrated collection of loose states.
I disagree. We need a united front against the US and other powers. Especially our outwards responses are mired in long discussions where every country needs to have a say. We need a federal or super-national entity that decides upon these things without requiring every grain of sand to have input.
If we remain sovereign states, we will never see ourselves as “Europeans” but “French”, “German”, “Slovakian”, etc. We don’t have a “European” passport and it shows. There is no European identity just a mashup of multiple countries that think about themselves first and Europe second.
European Federation
Europa
Republic of Europe
Federation of Europe
I like it it. Just don’t do United States of Europe. That would be crap.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Join%2C_or_Die
It never is the full union from the start.
Same thing.
Europe’s lemma is United in diversity. We could remain as separate sovereign states, you know.
Depends on where you draw the line of “sovereign”. You can’t really have, for example, an independent military in any reasonable way if you’re, idk, Belgium. But there is a sliding scale. The US, for example, is in theory just a highly integrated collection of loose states.
That’s what we had with NATO, and US ruined it. Make another NATO without them (with Canada).
Well, there’s NATO, but there’s also the 414 Panzerbataillon/Tankbataljon. As I said, sliding scale.
I disagree. We need a united front against the US and other powers. Especially our outwards responses are mired in long discussions where every country needs to have a say. We need a federal or super-national entity that decides upon these things without requiring every grain of sand to have input.
If we remain sovereign states, we will never see ourselves as “Europeans” but “French”, “German”, “Slovakian”, etc. We don’t have a “European” passport and it shows. There is no European identity just a mashup of multiple countries that think about themselves first and Europe second.
We have a centralized place to take decisions: the European Council and Parliament.
And I (and many others) would not like to lose sovereignty just because the European government cannot coordinate our nations.
That’s shortsighted and selfish thinking. The US needs people like you to be able to break up our union.