>> 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 coun

>> 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.