time for some european politics

[Kylearan]

Hi,

could you please try to use the quote tag a bit more thoughtful? I find it very hard to discern where the quoted text ends and your comments begin. Also, replying to your post becomes more difficult because the forum software chokes on the wrongly nested quote tags and eats up some of your post when quoting you.

Consider using preview, thanks! :)

I think there are very few europeans that when they think about a united europe they think about a new world power to give some oposition to teh US, Russia and China. Because what it is all abouit is free trade

On the contrary. It might have been all about free trade in the beginning, but now the EU is more about than just that. Since 9/11, the relationship of many EU nations with the USA has become a lot more, uh, complex. The USA and the EU disagree on a lot of things like how to deal with Iraq, Iran, the importance of human rights etc., but since might makes right, all we could do was protest (and quarrel among ourselves, or course...) while watching (more or less) helplessly how things were done by the US. Now if you've read the newspapers or listened to what many European politicians, especially the French, have said when discussing the European constitution, then you will see that many people want just that: A new superpower in (friendly) opposition to the only superpower that exists at the moment, the USA. Or why do you think there had been so much talk about a European foreign minister, or about building up a European military? Only to protect free trade? :lol:

-Kylearan