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There's also the huge "problem" that the countries in the EU want to maintain sovereignty. France and Spain can't really stop Ireland from doing whatever the h
by saalweachter 10y ago
There's also the huge "problem" that the countries in the EU want to maintain sovereignty. France and Spain can't really stop Ireland from doing whatever the hell it wants without giving up some of their own sovereignty.
In the United States, one of the biggest powers of the Federal government is its power to regulate interstate commerce. No one in the EU is willing to give it so much authority.
- AnthonyMouse 10y ago> In the United States, one of the biggest powers of the Federal government is its power to regulate interstate commerce. No one in the EU is willing to give it so much authority. To be fair, if the US is the model, you can imagine why they wouldn't want that. I don't think the people who wrote the commerce clause were imagining federal micromanagement of local schools or the War on Drugs.
- kuschku 10y agoInterestingly, not even in Germany the federal government micromanages the schools. So even Germany is less integrated than the US on that. Even after 200 years of every closer integrations.