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Of course they know that. How dumb would one have to be to not know France, Italy, Germany are countries? :-)
by khazhoux 3y ago
Of course they know that. How dumb would one have to be to not know France, Italy, Germany are countries? :-)
- HarHarVeryFunny 3y agoSo then why not refer to them as countries - that's how they would refer to themselves (I'm ex-UK myself). Doesn't make any sense to say "I know they're countries but I'm just gonna call them states instead". The EU context doesn't make any difference.
- khazhoux 3y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union > The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of 27 member states that are located primarily in Europe. "State" made perfect sense in context of the post.