Oopsie said:
When you would think of those small monarchies that they could actually small, relatively independent democracies, you have the USA. Take gun laws for instance. They differ from state to state.
European "unifying" legislation is already, and has already been passed, solidifying us as a single power. You may call it a purely economical pact, it is not.
Many enviromental, criminal and financial laws are already in effect, european union wide (I'm only mentioning the countries in which you can travel freely as an European, and which has the Euro as it's currency).
A European constitution was proposed to the peoples of the nations in Europa, which my country declined after a referendum. However, the sad truth of a massive ruling body soon showed itself as our own European Representatives mentioned on television they'll pass it anyway through the back door. And for the most part they already have. By changing my nations own law through it's own, leaking constitution. Europe is already a fully, constitutionalized supernation.
I won't deny we need the economic power of all nations within the EU. What I think we don't need is yet another bureaucratic institution which makes decisions on a untransparant level we never even heard of over here.
True, laws differ yes, but that's a minor difference. I still see americans as one nation, regardless of the state they live in. While in Europe, almost every country has its language, culture,
history, every country thinks differently.
And when I pointed out the fact that european countries have different forms of government because it makes them much more different from each other than say, two different states in the USA.
What difference do you see between Kansas and Florida? Two states, a few different laws, but the same form of government, the same inhabitants, the same language, culture, pretty much the same way of living too. You could say their geographical position is different and one has beaches and tourism, while the other doesn't, but that doesn't change the culture and the other aforementioned stuff.
While in Europe, you have say Netherlands and say Italy.
Completely diverse cultures, languages, forms of government (the dutch still have a queen, while italians still fear another dictator), etc. And all this cultural diversity makes a LOT of difference.
You might say we are solidified as a single power, but in reality, all members of the EU still function as an independent country. Each european country is much more involved in themselves than the american states.
I completely agree with you on your last point. And I don't think that's happening/will happen. The EU will never become like the USA. Mostly because USA was formed by one type of people, the americans, wanting to unify the territories. They created a nation, a country out of small populated areas. The EU, on the other hand is more like a pact between old, existing countries that basically live on their own, with their own history, culture and everything. They don't merge that, they just share their economy with each other.
We're definitely not forming a singular supernation. What are we, the USSR? It, for example, united many asian countries, many of which were different like our european now (though they were kinda similar, and the russian exploited those similarities), but they forced them to became a part of one supernation. That's for example how a supernation would look, if we completely merged into one nation, like USSR did, that's when you could say that we basically are like USA. Just one giant nation of same people. It was called a union too, but we all know our European Union is definitely not the same.
