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This is one major advantage of the EU. Not everybody needs to prepare for every eventuality, since their neighbors have their back. Articles like this are help
by sentenza 13y ago
This is one major advantage of the EU. Not everybody needs to prepare for every eventuality, since their neighbors have their back.
Articles like this are helpful now, because the Swiss (well at least some of them), seem to have forgotten what benefits their close cooperation with the EU brings.
- spindritf 13y agoSwitzerland is neither in the EU, nor in the NATO.
- Someone 13y agoThat's what "the Swiss [...] seem to have forgotten what benefits their close cooperation with the EU brings" refers to (in combination with the recent Swiss vote to limit immigration from the EU)
- hangonhn 13y agoThat's a bit of a jump I think... Had it been Canada and the US, I'm sure they would have done the same for each other and they're not part of any union. I don't think we can make generalizations like this because while EU is good for some things, it has also been devastating for other things like the disparity in economies in Germany vs Spain, Italy, Greece.
- jleyank 13y agoI have no clue how European air defense works, but I thought US and Canada have been part of Norad since the bad old days? Thus, while they're not part of a union (as far as I can tell), they share military duties in some areas.
- hangonhn 13y agoI might have used a poor example but I think most countries on good terms with their neighbors would help each other out in an emergency without them being part of any formal union.
- tptacek 13y agoTheir neighbors have their back, but the reality is that they're all drafting off the US military spend.