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The EU without a common language and government is a failed experiment

TheLoafOfBread 3y ago
You mean like Switzerland with 4 official languages existing in its current form since 1848?
whynotmaybe 3y ago
Gonna need more info on that. The EU is rooted from the ECSC from 1951 that started with 6 countries and that many languages that quickly evolved to 11. 72 years, that's quite a long experiment.
another2another 3y ago
The EU is in fact a resounding success of monetary integration and legal harmonization leading to a mutually beneficial zone of economic cooperation. People can travel, work and live in any member state with little or no barriers. Produce and sell their goods and services across the whole zone in one big legal bloc. The cost of being outside of that bloc is one that Britons are now starting to realise, and are beginning to bitterly regret leaving. After all, what have the Romans ever done for us?
- blitzar 3y ago
  The aqueduct?
  - gumby 3y ago
    Yes, but apart from the aqueduct?
  - mullingitover 3y ago
    And the sanitation.
- spacedcowboy 3y ago
  A lot of us (48% in fact) disagreed with the entire idea of leaving the EU in the first place. It was in the interests of our political masters to execute the result of the poll, though - the EU wanted to make money more transparent, and the tories have too many friends/political donors on the dodgy side of the coin...
wkat4242 3y ago
There's a lot of common government. The same way you could call the US a failed experiment because they still have state-level governments? And the language you've always had as a given. We're not quite as integrated. But we don't want to be. The US model is not necessarily the best for everyone.
aksss 3y ago
If the goal was to prevent war amongst the European nations, as is their wont, I’d say it’s successful - or as Maverick said, “Ask me again tomorrow, but it’s lookin’ good so far.” Granted, seventy years isn’t too long in the scheme of things, but I’d say it has a lot of life in it yet.
jacooper 3y ago
Its such a failed experiment, that many countries want to replicate it!

You mean like Switzerland with 4 official languages existing in its current form since 1848?

Gonna need more info on that. The EU is rooted from the ECSC from 1951 that started with 6 countries and that many languages that quickly evolved to 11. 72 years, that's quite a long experiment.

another2another 3y ago

The EU is in fact a resounding success of monetary integration and legal harmonization leading to a mutually beneficial zone of economic cooperation. People can travel, work and live in any member state with little or no barriers. Produce and sell their goods and services across the whole zone in one big legal bloc. The cost of being outside of that bloc is one that Britons are now starting to realise, and are beginning to bitterly regret leaving. After all, what have the Romans ever done for us?

blitzar 3y ago
The aqueduct?
- gumby 3y ago
  Yes, but apart from the aqueduct?
- mullingitover 3y ago
  And the sanitation.
spacedcowboy 3y ago
A lot of us (48% in fact) disagreed with the entire idea of leaving the EU in the first place. It was in the interests of our political masters to execute the result of the poll, though - the EU wanted to make money more transparent, and the tories have too many friends/political donors on the dodgy side of the coin...

wkat4242 3y ago

There's a lot of common government. The same way you could call the US a failed experiment because they still have state-level governments? And the language you've always had as a given. We're not quite as integrated. But we don't want to be. The US model is not necessarily the best for everyone.

aksss 3y ago

If the goal was to prevent war amongst the European nations, as is their wont, I’d say it’s successful - or as Maverick said, “Ask me again tomorrow, but it’s lookin’ good so far.” Granted, seventy years isn’t too long in the scheme of things, but I’d say it has a lot of life in it yet.

jacooper 3y ago

Its such a failed experiment, that many countries want to replicate it!