Just wondering as an American watching the EU pool resources and mostly work for the same common goals over my lifetime.

To clarify, I’m not saying that this would be a part of the United States of America, but a separate world power.

  • EarMaster@lemmy.world
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    51 minutes ago

    I don’t think so. Of course it’s hard to predict what Europe will look like in 100 years, but I’d like to image the EU more as a service provider for its member states. Maybe the military will be combined and the economy is already very much linked together which will increase. But I don’t think the member states will cease to exist as sovereign nations. Europe is far more diverse not only in language but also in culture. That is in my opinion a strong feature of the union as it is a union in diversity.

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 English
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    2 hours ago

    I hope within a hundred years, the entire globe can unite and we can all just be Earthicans.

    Edit: What hateful POS is against worldwide unification?

  • Krik@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 hour ago

    I can see the ‘Core EU’ uniting into a single state like a United States of Europe or a European Federation but not the whole of the EU or Europe.
    The ‘Core EU’ are the member states that push for further integration like France, BeNeLux and Germany. But there are member states that don’t want to give Brussels more power like Hungary.

    This can cripple the EU. A merger state would dominate all votes with their larger population and number of representatives. There could be no decision without the approval of them. For example a qualified vote requires states with at least 65% of the EU population. FR+GER+BE+NE+LUX together represent ~41% of the total EU population and can therefore block every vote. They could create some kind of duopoly of the merger state and EU remnants to balance power somehow.

    The EU always was neither fish nor fowl, why not make it weirder? 🤪