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Indeed, the EU is currently a union of countries - that is the way it was designed: the founders were nationally attached. I would love to make it an actual cou
by liotier 9y ago
Indeed, the EU is currently a union of countries - that is the way it was designed: the founders were nationally attached. I would love to make it an actual country, but I am in a minority for now - most citizens of Europe still feel they belong to their nation before belonging to the union... I dream of that changing: when one has traveled a bit inside and outside of Europe, one realizes that national identities are irrelevant compared to what European nations have in common. But that would be a radical redesign of the EU.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoI'm sort of where you are in that I don't really feel like I'm a part of any nation, I'm just a human. I do feel Terran however (ie like I belong to Earth and vice-versa). So I feel European as much as British. As a subject of Her Brittanic Majesty however, I'm about to have that citizenship forcibly removed. The only other option appears to be to become a political refugee. Like if a third of people in your region voted and suddenly you were no longer to be a national of the country you were born in; it's weird.
- digi_owl 9y agoI can't help wonder if this is an age and class thing. Is one is younger and hold higher education, one can more freely move between nations. But if one is older, more settled with family and such, and perhaps has done industrial work for most of ones life, i suspect one see less benefits from EU. Heck, some of the directives may be seen as disrupting hard won job security.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoSeems like a reasonable hypothesis.