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LatteLazy | 6 months ago
Since us brits left I wondered if there would be a big move to more effective government. But apparently not?
I think the most interesting thing about the EU is we’re watching the formation of a country but over ~100 years. The US had a few milestones (war of independence, civil war, ww2) where it got things together and centralised etc. the EU has not had (yet) crises of that scale.
It took the euro debt crisis to get fiscal stuff moving. Maybe Ukraine/Trump is what is needed to do the same for armed forces?
lycopodiopsida|6 months ago
First of all, not in the scope of current EU. I can't imagine Netherlands landing in one country with Romania or Hungary for reasons of politics and economics.
Second, even if we take some countries with good ties, similar economics and politics - let us say Netherlands, France, Germany - there is more to a country than that. I was in Belgium the other month. Very funny - you leave Brussels on a train, ride for 20 min., get off the train in Antwerp. Different language, different people, they do not even care doubling descriptions in a museum in french. There is more to a country than just a name, and I am not sure a stable nation can be born just like that. There is more to it than politics.