Oh, please..."Old Europe leading New Europe?"..Yup..that meake saa whole lot of sense....have you looked at the figures for economic growth in Poland and Eastern Europe, vs, that of Germany and France?..The whole EU concept, is unweildy and unworkable..the only ones who benefit are the beaurocrats...
All members are equal, but some are more equal than others.
Read that far and I didn't have to read any farther.
Socialism doesn't work, period.
As for being unwieldy w/25, that 50 state thing doesn't work for the US, now does it?
The EU was doomed from the start. It requires that its members give up sovereignty.
This sounds to me basically like anti-American France and Germany conspiring to turn the EU into an anti-American project. This is so gratuitous and unnecessary. The US traditionally has been neutral to positive about European integration, thinking, erroneously as it has turned out, that the Europeans were our friends. Since they have turned knee-jerk opposers of anything the US stands for, and simply hate the US and identify falsely as the focus of evil in the modern world, while giving a complete pass to Islamist terrorism and its supporters, I think we have learned our lesson. The Europeans are not to be trusted.
Ping! This is maybe of interest for you.