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Any further EU integration, of the kind necessary to make it a functioning union will likely require referendums in many countries. More than that it will reali

by dageshi 12y ago

Any further EU integration, of the kind necessary to make it a functioning union will likely require referendums in many countries. More than that it will realistically signify the death knell of what was traditionally the nation states of europe. The public mood is not there for those to pass in many countries

cbd1984 12y ago
> The public mood is not there for those to pass in many countries It will be once the next European war is over. America wasn't as unified as it is now until after the Civil War and the subsequent passage of Constitutional amendments to fully and finally not only abolish slavery, but to make sure freed blacks would be full citizens, despite what the states formerly in a state of rebellion thought about it.