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EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'

83 points · 170 comments · helsinkiandrew

nutjob2 · 1789548225 · focus · HN ↗
Between the US and China, the EU is the future, but they need to federalize then leverage that to implement a top notch military and economy.
Carney can see this and wants a piece of the action. The question is if the EU can escape its parochial myopia and see it.
Hopefully Russia will do something even stupider and precipitate the existential crisis that the EU desperately needs to get off its ass.
1. iLoveOncall · 1789548582 · focus · HN ↗
  > they need to federalize
  "Shit Americans say"
  The EU is NOTHING like the US. The difference between each member is the same as the difference between the US and Mexico, not like the difference between California and Utah.
  It's utter ignorance to suggest that the EU could one day become a single country.
  1. jurgenburgen · 1789549775 · focus · HN ↗
    “A single country” is pretty vague. For some definitions the EU already is one, for other definitions the EU can never be one.
    What we do need is doing more things on the EU level. E.g. there’s no point in all member states building a nuclear umbrella or a space program. Some taxes also work better on an EU level because capital flows freely in the union and makes taxation hard for individual members.

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