[ExPatInFrance]

I totally agree with you. I can't imagine any of the people posting have ever tried to do business in Europe. The E.U. is at east making some things "common." Like package labeling for example. They are pooling their money to for example, finance healthcare in deeloping countries. Instead of all these nations having overlapping projects, now it is better organized. How would it be in the U.S. if Illinois had a Malaria treatment program in Brazil, and then California came in and started dupication the efforts of Illinois? Europe is jsut doing what the U.S. already does, except for them it is countries banding together and for us it is states.

[exnavychick]

Europe is jsut doing what the U.S. already does, except for them it is countries banding together and for us it is states.
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LOL...then why not give up the pretense of being sovereign nations at all? If they're gonna be the United States of Europe, then why be coy?

Because people won't stand for it, when push comes to shove, that's why.

[Tulsa Brian]

Your analogy of Illinois and California is utterly stupid.
Illinois and California were never independent nations.