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[naath]

Sundays are for arguing with phoning my parents.

So today's annoyance is that Dad hates the EU. Go the EU! (I can't seem to come up with a natty chant). True it could be better - like, it could be more democratic, for instance; but a lot of the ways I think it could be be better mean more EU not less.. But it's beet >50 years since the Germans have been at war with the French, that has to count for something right?

It's not that I find euroskepticism entirely impossible to understand mind, I just disagree with it.

(Bring on the USE :-p)

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I think the USA largely seems to work, and be democratic, and stuff. I mean, I don't like the detail of a lot of their politics but I don't think that that history would have to repeat itself that closely.

I hadn't read that article, I will. Looks interesting.

I'm not big on the idea of "sovereignty" as an abstract concept.

Oddly I'm totally in favour of smaller *states* within the USE - and one of the things I think a USE would be good for would be that small regions that want to be states not part-of-bigger-states would have fewer problems with splitting off because the minimum size for a state within a larger entity is probably smaller than the minimum size for a nation that has to cope on its own.

So far the EU has been very good for stopping us going to war with the Germans or the French. I don't think that should be taken lightly considering our history :-p Growing cooperation probably lessens the chances of war, not least because we know each other better now. Of course the USA has had a civil war, but it did only do that once (which is doing better than the UK; but maybe we've had longer in which to do it).

Brussels 'DC' would "obviously" be the capital of the USE :-p

A larger economic area has a better chance of spending more time with some sub-areas having a good time of it - for instance at the moment whilst Greece is seriously hosed Germany is actually doing quite well. I am in favour of transferring money from Germany to Greece to support the Greeks in their time of need. On, mostly, I guess the principle that the Germans have the ability and the Greeks the need. I think this sort of thing works better within countries than between them.