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We still feel like the EU is a close cooperation of countries, not a federation. Our ideas about social system are different, our economies are at a different s

We still feel like the EU is a close cooperation of countries, not a federation. Our ideas about social system are different, our economies are at a different state of development and have contrasting needs. We fear that with federalization, we might become locked in being suppliers of low-tech parts etc for the more developed regions. It is important to know that almost all big corporations and crucial infrastructure (water supply, etc) are owned by foreign parties from these more developed countries.

thefounder 7y ago
>> We still feel like the EU is a close cooperation of countries, not a federation. That's because EU is exactly that at this time: a close cooperation of countries and a bit more(i.e the cohesion policy). Without a fiscal union and a common army you cannot talk about a federalisation. Just look how the Greek financial crisis was handled. Greece was pretty much regarded as a stand alone country that needs to pay alone for its mistakes or leave the union. In a federalisation the burden would be shared like it happened in the U.S. We would talk about european citizens not greek citizens. The pros and cons of federalisation can be debated but I'm not sure if the poor states of the US would do better on their own.