This feels like a recipe for dysfunction and more paralysis.

The reason nothing gets done in the EU is because the power is too decentralized and we're not all pulling in the same direction. We're getting stuck in petty national interests instead of the European cause.

The fix is the exact opposite - take power from the nation states and centralize it in the EU. There's a reason the US became a single country and not loosely associated states.

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inglor_cz 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

"the European cause."

Plenty of Europeans, including me, disagree with you on the very existence of a "European cause".

"There's a reason the US became a single country and not loosely associated states."

I don't want federal EU, many others don't either. At least hold a referendum before running your fix. I suspect that most member countries would vote against being reduced to provinces of a centralized state.

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saubeidl 3 days ago | parent [-]

You will be reduced to provinces of a centralized state anyways, seeing the CZ in your name. The only question is if the capital would be Brussels or Moscow.

We don't have the luxury of waiting for endless referenda. The enemy's at the gates.

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inglor_cz 3 days ago | parent [-]

This sort of false dichotimes was peddled to us in the 1940s already. Choose Berlin or Moscow.

Let us say that I don't consider your prophecy very accurate. Czechia, in some form, exists for about 1100 years. The EU probably won't match that record.

As for the Russians, molon labe, and I wouldn't count on Brussels to help us efficiently in such situations, if they cannot even enforce law in local Arab neighbourhoods.

Even today, the southwestern part of Europe is mostly obsessed with Gaza and I have to remind my Spanish and Italian colleagues that there is an actual shooting war on this very continent.

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saubeidl 3 days ago | parent [-]

Czechia was an Austrian province until very recently.

	▲	inglor_cz 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		Czechia was a constituent kingdom in a sui generis hodgepodge monarchy consisting of many kingdoms. Not the same as province. That said, we gained sovereignty and precisely because we still remember being treated as subordinates, we don't want to lose it again to another hodgepodge. There won't be a federal EU, live with it. The optimal time for federalists has passed, and people are more distrustful of centralization than ever before. Not just because of naked power grab attempts like Chat Control, which would perfectly fit into China, but not to a continent where multiple constitutions forbid this sort of mass surveillance. You may find it funny, but people actually fought and died for freedom of their nations, and their legacy won't be disposed of just because the Brussels bosses would find it practical in their quest for more power and money.

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nickslaughter02 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> The reason nothing gets done in the EU is because the power is too decentralized and we're not all pulling in the same direction.

Look at what EU wants to do. I would be glad if nothing got done but unfortunately a lot of their horrible regulations do and Europeans suffer for it.

> The fix is the exact opposite - take power from the nation states and centralize it in the EU.

No.