> they need to federalize

"Shit Americans say"

The EU is NOTHING like the US. The difference between each member is the same as the difference between the US and Mexico, not like the difference between California and Utah.

It's utter ignorance to suggest that the EU could one day become a single country.

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jurgenburgen 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

“A single country” is pretty vague. For some definitions the EU already is one, for other definitions the EU can never be one.

What we do need is doing more things on the EU level. E.g. there’s no point in all member states building a nuclear umbrella or a space program. Some taxes also work better on an EU level because capital flows freely in the union and makes taxation hard for individual members.

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gizajob 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nevertheless that exact plan is in the minds of every higher-up running the EU. Individual counties are an anachronism that will eventually be got rid of if the EU is to continue.

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arethuza 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The UK is a "country of countries" - with fairly significant differences between some of the component parts - maybe the EU could become something like that?

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gizajob 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You realise how many wars and how much bloodshed over how many centuries it took for that to happen in the UK?

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arethuza 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The political union of England and Scotland was achieved without bloodshed and largely because folks in Scotland wanted a financial bailout to cover the utterly disastrous Scottish colonial efforts in Darien.

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gizajob an hour ago | parent [-]

How about Northern Ireland?

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arethuza an hour ago | parent [-]

Personally I expect NI to peacefully unify with the Republic of Ireland at some point in the next 20 years? Or maybe not - all depends on how people vote rather than fighting?

	▲	gizajob an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I feel like you might not know much about the peace process in NI. If you’d like to see a return to things getting blown up and catholics being gunned down by loyalists, then suggest conducting a vote on joining Ireland and leaving the UK.