And that is why Mr Reinfeldt, with his large brown, sad looking eyes can sell us out to a new EU-state, without so much as a murmur among the general population.
- I’m not scared of EU becoming a superpower. It will work in close cooperation with the US and other allies like Japan, South Korea, Australia etc.
In several areas, especially in terms of economy, Europe needs to integrate more. Our national differences as well as our national sovereignty will be preserved, even if we manage to bring about increased trade levels and more competition through deregulation, more homogeneous legislation and joint efforts in the area of infrastructures (Autobahns, bitte!).
A great thing about EU membership that few people seem aware of is that IF a single country does NOT wish to comply with any ‘supranational’ decree, it can simply refuse to do so without suffering any consequences. However, in the case of the Euro, national budgets have to meet with certain requirements (in terms of national debt not reaching certain percentage levels of the GDP) or the countries will (in theory) get fined, but, on the other hand, what happened when Germany, Italy and France failed in this department recently? Nothing.
Europeans of today have nothing to fear from each other.
A strong USA and a strong EU are warranties for a strong Western Civilization.