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Europe is the largest economy in the world. If there is any merit to this article, then I wish the US luck, but I think they'll get a very short shrift. The EU
by tomelders 14y ago
Europe is the largest economy in the world. If there is any merit to this article, then I wish the US luck, but I think they'll get a very short shrift. The EU has too many internal problems to bother pussy footing around with the US. It's a sleeping giant and I get the feeling it's about ready to start putting it's foot down, purely to save itself.
- eqreqeq 14y agoEurope is a bunch of countries. I'm sure we can arbitrarily choose any other group of countries that will make it a bigger economy than Europe. So saying that Europe is the largest economy in the world is kind of silly. Largest to what? To other continents?
- namdnay 14y agoBy "Europe", the parent means the E.U. The fact that is has a parliament, a supreme court, a set of laws and a unified trade policy means that it can (in some situations, such as this one) be compared with other federations of states. Such as... the USA!
- lifeisstillgood 14y agoThat is a very interesting point - Europe is hurting and will plain old react at some points - its going to be fun :-) Weirdly it is likely that the best way that the EU will draw together and get behind one set of federal organisations is by seeing itself as attacked by outsiders - hopefully not literally as in US.
- silvestrov 14y agoSeems like you forget that EU fined Microsoft whereas US didn't. It might be US which is pussy footing most. And they forced Facebook to give us a copy of the information they have registered about us. How's that going in the US?